The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood), sentence 9
Toad feels «a dull pain in the lower part of his spine» — that is how fear feels to him.
Who acts: Toad, that · What happens: feel, be · To what, where: dull pain, lower part, Toad
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, that), 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 | 2 feels | nsubj |
| 2 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 pain | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pain | det |
| 5 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pain | amod |
| 6 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feels | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 part | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 part | det |
| 9 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 part | amod |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pain | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 spine | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 spine | nmod:poss |
| 13 | spine | spine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 part | nmod |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 pain | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 feels | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 feels | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 feels | cop |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 feels | advmod |
| 19 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feels | nsubj |
| 20 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 feels | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 feels | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Toad | a dull pain | the lower part of Toad's spine | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pain=Theme in part=Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | that | Toad | feel property | tree rules |
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:9.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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