The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing), sentence 26
She asks Toad to wash some of her things; Toad, frightened, offers to steer instead, but she says «It takes some practice to steer a barge properly.»
Who acts: horse, Toad, It · What happens: ask, wash, frighten, offer, steer, say · To what, where: Toad, some, practice, barge · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (horse, Toad, It), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 wash | mark |
| 5 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asks | xcomp |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 wash | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 things | nmod:poss |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 some | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 Toad | punct |
| 11 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 offers | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 frightened | punct |
| 13 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 offers | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 offers | punct |
| 15 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asks | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 steer | mark |
| 17 | steer | steer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 offers | xcomp |
| 18 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 17 steer | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 says | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 says | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 says | nsubj |
| 22 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asks | conj |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 takes | punct |
| 24 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 takes | nsubj |
| 25 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 says | ccomp |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 practice | det |
| 27 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 takes | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 steer | mark |
| 29 | steer | steer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 practice | acl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 barge | det |
| 31 | barge | barge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 steer | obj |
| 32 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 29 steer | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 34 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | 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 | ask speech: ask | present | horse | Toad | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent toad=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wash not said to happen | to-infinitive | horse not said here | some | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | ||||
| 3 | frighten | participle | Toad not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | offer | present | Toad | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | steer not said to happen | to-infinitive | Toad not said here | instead property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | take in a quote | present | It | some practice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent practice=Theme | ||||
| 8 | steer in a quote | to-infinitive | a barge | properly property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barge=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:061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.lesson:26.
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, 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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