The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing), sentence 21
A barge is a long flat boat on a canal; here a horse walking on the tow-path (the path beside the canal) pulls it with a long rope, and the barge-woman steers with the tiller (the handle of the rudder).
Who acts: barge, horse, barge woman · What happens: be, walk, pull, steer · To what, where: long flat boat, canal, tow path, barge
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 (barge, horse, barge woman), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 barge | det |
| 2 | barge | barge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boat | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 boat | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boat | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boat | amod |
| 6 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boat | amod |
| 7 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 canal | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 canal | det |
| 10 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boat | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 horse | punct |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 horse | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pulls | nsubj |
| 15 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 horse | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 path | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 path | det |
| 18 | tow | tow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 path | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 tow | punct |
| 20 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walking | obl |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 path | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 path | det |
| 23 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 path | appos |
| 24 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 26 canal | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 canal | det |
| 26 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 path | nmod |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 path | punct |
| 28 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 boat | parataxis |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pulls | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 rope | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 rope | det |
| 32 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 rope | amod |
| 33 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pulls | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 steers | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 steers | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 woman | det |
| 37 | barge | barge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 woman | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 barge | punct |
| 39 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 steers | nsubj |
| 40 | steers | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 pulls | conj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 tiller | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 tiller | det |
| 43 | tiller | tiller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 steers | obl |
| 44 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 handle | punct |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 handle | det |
| 46 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 tiller | appos |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 rudder | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 rudder | det |
| 49 | rudder | rudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 handle | nmod |
| 50 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 handle | punct |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 boat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a barge | a long flat boat | a canal | tree rules | |||
| 2 | walk | gerund | a horse not said here | the tow path | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on path=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | pull | present | a horse | barge | with a long rope | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | steer | present | the barge woman | with the tiller | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: 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:061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.lesson:21.
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): no change. 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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