The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing), sentence 13
He tries coaxing it, slapping it, punching it; his back aches, his proud paws go crinkly, he loses the soap for the fiftieth time.
Who acts: Toad, back, proud paws · What happens: try, coax, slap, punch, ache, go · To what, where: heap, soap
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing)» 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, back, proud paws), 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 tries | nsubj |
| 2 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | coaxing | coax | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 tries | xcomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 coaxing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 slapping | punct |
| 6 | slapping | slap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 coaxing | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 slapping | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 punching | punct |
| 9 | punching | punch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 slapping | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 punching | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 aches | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 back | nmod:poss |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 aches | nsubj |
| 14 | aches | ache | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tries | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 paws | nmod:poss |
| 17 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 paws | amod |
| 18 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 go | nsubj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tries | conj |
| 20 | crinkly | crinkly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 go | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 loses | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 loses | nsubj |
| 23 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tries | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 soap | det |
| 25 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 loses | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 time | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 28 | fiftieth | fiftieth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 time | amod |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 loses | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tries | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | Toad | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | coax not said to happen | gerund | Toad not said here | heap | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | slap | gerund | Toad not said here | heap | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | punch | gerund | Toad not said here | heap | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | ache | present | Toad's back | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | go | present | Toad's proud paws | crinkly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | lose | present | Toad | the soap | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soap=Eventuality |
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:061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.lesson:13.
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): 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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