The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood), sentence 4
He laughs for the first time since prison, but soon he remembers it is late, he has no money and no supper, and the wood is cold, dark and unfriendly: night-jars rattle, an owl brushes his shoulder, a fox teases him about missing socks, and at last he makes a bed of leaves in a hollow tree and sleeps till morning.
Who acts: driver, prison, wood, night jars, owl, fox · What happens: laugh, remember, be, have, rattle, brush · To what, where: money, shoulder, driver, bed, last · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (driver, prison, wood, night jars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 laughs | nsubj |
| 2 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laughs | obl |
| 7 | since | since | ADP | _ | 8 prison | case |
| 8 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 has | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 has | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 remembers | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 remembers | nsubj |
| 13 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 has | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 late | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 late | cop |
| 16 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 remembers | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 has | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 has | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughs | conj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 money | det |
| 21 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 has | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 supper | cc |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 supper | det |
| 24 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 money | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 cold | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 cold | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wood | det |
| 28 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cold | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 cold | cop |
| 30 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 has | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 dark | punct |
| 32 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cold | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 unfriendly | cc |
| 34 | unfriendly | unfriendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cold | conj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 rattle | punct |
| 36 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 jars | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 night | punct |
| 38 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 rattle | nsubj |
| 39 | rattle | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughs | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 brushes | punct |
| 41 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 owl | det |
| 42 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 brushes | nsubj |
| 43 | brushes | brush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 rattle | parataxis |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 45 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 brushes | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 teases | punct |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 fox | det |
| 48 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 teases | nsubj |
| 49 | teases | tease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 rattle | parataxis |
| 50 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 teases | obj |
| 51 | about | about | ADP | _ | 53 socks | case |
| 52 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 socks | amod |
| 53 | socks | sock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 teases | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 makes | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 makes | cc |
| 56 | at | at | ADP | _ | 57 last | case |
| 57 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 makes | obl |
| 58 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 59 makes | nsubj |
| 59 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 teases | conj |
| 60 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 61 bed | det |
| 61 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 makes | obj |
| 62 | of | of | ADP | _ | 63 leaves | case |
| 63 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 61 bed | nmod |
| 64 | in | in | ADP | _ | 67 tree | case |
| 65 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 67 tree | det |
| 66 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 67 tree | amod |
| 67 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 makes | obl |
| 68 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 69 sleeps | cc |
| 69 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 59 makes | conj |
| 70 | till | till | ADP | _ | 71 morning | case |
| 71 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 sleeps | obl |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | driver | time | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | remember | present | driver | soon property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | prison | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | driver | no money and no supper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the wood | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | the wood not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | be | the wood not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | rattle | present | night jars | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | brush | present | a owl | driver's shoulder | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoulder=Theme | ||||
| 10 | tease | present | a fox | driver | about missing socks | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 11 | make | present | driver | a bed of leaves | last | in a hollow tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Product | ||
| 12 | sleep | present | driver not said here | morning | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:055-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel.lesson:4.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.4.
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