The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing), sentence 7
A horse comes along the tow-path pulling a barge, steered by a big stout woman in a sun-bonnet.
Who acts: horse · What happens: come, pull, steer · To what, where: 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 (horse), 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 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 path | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 path | det |
| 6 | tow | tow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 path | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 tow | punct |
| 8 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obl |
| 9 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 comes | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 barge | det |
| 11 | barge | barge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pulling | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 steered | punct |
| 13 | steered | steer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 path | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 woman | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 woman | amod |
| 17 | stout | stout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 woman | compound |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 steered | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 bonnet | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bonnet | det |
| 21 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bonnet | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 sun | punct |
| 23 | bonnet | bonnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 woman | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | a horse | the tow path | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along path=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | pull | gerund | a horse not said here | a barge | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barge=Theme | ||||
| 3 | steer | participle | a horse not said here | by a big stout woman in a sun bonnet | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by woman=Destination |
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:7.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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