The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood), sentence 5
Toad «eagerly scrambled up into the cab of the engine» (the cab = the driver's place); «The guard waved his welcome flag» and the train moved out.
Who acts: Toad, cab, guard, train · What happens: scramble up, place, wave, move out · To what, where: cab, welcome flag · 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 (Toad, cab, guard, train), 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 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scrambled | nsubj |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 scrambled | punct |
| 3 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 4 scrambled | advmod |
| 4 | scrambled | scramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 scrambled | compound:prt |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 cab | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cab | det |
| 8 | cab | cab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scrambled | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 engine | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 engine | det |
| 11 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cab | nmod |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 scrambled | punct |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 cab | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cab | det |
| 15 | cab | cab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 place | nsubj |
| 16 | = | = | SYM | _ | 20 place | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 driver | det |
| 18 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 place | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 driver | case |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cab | parataxis |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 place | punct |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 waved | punct |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 waved | punct |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 guard | det |
| 25 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 waved | nsubj |
| 26 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scrambled | parataxis |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 flag | nmod:poss |
| 28 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 flag | amod |
| 29 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 waved | obj |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 waved | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 moved | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 train | det |
| 33 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 moved | nsubj |
| 34 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 waved | conj |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 moved | compound:prt |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scrambled | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scramble up in a quote | past | Toad | the cab of the engine | eagerly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cab=Destination | |||
| 2 | place | the cab | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | wave in a quote | past | the guard | driver's welcome flag | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient | ||||
| 4 | move out | past | the train | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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:5.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.
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