The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood), sentence 6
Thinking of Toad Hall, money and «praise and admiration at the recital of his adventures» (recital = telling), he «began to skip up and down and shout and sing».
Who acts: Toad · What happens: think, begin, skip, shout, sing, recite · To what, where: adventures · 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), 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 | Thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 began | advcl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Toad | case |
| 3 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Thinking | obl |
| 4 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Toad | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 money | punct |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Toad | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 praise | cc |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 praise | punct |
| 9 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 money | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 admiration | cc |
| 11 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 praise | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 recital | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 recital | det |
| 14 | recital | recital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 praise | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 adventures | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 17 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 recital | nmod |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 recital | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 recital | punct |
| 20 | recital | recital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 adventures | conj |
| 21 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 22 telling | punct |
| 22 | telling | telling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 adventures | conj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 money | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thinking | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 began | nsubj |
| 26 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 27 began | punct |
| 27 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 skip | mark |
| 29 | skip | skip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 began | xcomp |
| 30 | up | up | ADV | _ | 29 skip | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 down | cc |
| 32 | down | down | ADV | _ | 30 up | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 shout | cc |
| 34 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 skip | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sing | cc |
| 36 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 shout | conj |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 began | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 began | 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 | think speech: other | gerund | Toad not said here | of Toad and money and praise at the recital of Toad's adventures and recital and telling and admiration | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | begin in a quote | past | Toad | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | skip in a quote | to-infinitive | Toad not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shout speech: express in a quote | infinitive | Toad not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express in a quote | infinitive | Toad not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | recite in a quote | Toad's adventures and recital and telling | nom recital «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | adventure in a quote | Toad | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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:6.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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