The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing), sentence 5

He finds a road, then a canal running beside it, and he thinks: they must both be coming from somewhere and going to somewhere.

Who acts: Toad, road · What happens: find, run, think, come, go · To what, where: road, canal · 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 (Toad, road), 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 finds	nsubj
2	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 road	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 finds	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 canal	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 canal	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 canal	det
8	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 road	conj
9	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 road	acl
10	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 running	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thinks	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thinks	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thinks	nsubj
15	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 finds	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 coming	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 coming	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 coming	aux
19	both	both	ADV	_	21 coming	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 coming	aux
21	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 thinks	ccomp
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 somewhere	case
23	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 coming	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 going	cc
25	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 coming	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 somewhere	case
27	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 going	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 finds	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	Toad	a road and a canal			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Topic
2	run	gerund	a road and a canal not said here		canal		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside it=Trajectory
3	think speech: other	present	Toad				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	come	must · progressive	road			both property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from somewhere=Initial_Location
5	go	gerund	road not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to somewhere=Initial_Location

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:5.

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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