The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing), sentence 8
Toad, still dressed as a washerwoman, tells her a sad made-up story: a married daughter in trouble near Toad Hall, his washing business left behind, all his money lost.
Who acts: Toad, married daughter · What happens: dress, tell, make up, wash, leave behind, lose · To what, where: Toad, sad made story, horse, business, money · 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, married daughter), 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 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tells | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dressed | punct |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 dressed | advmod |
| 4 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Toad | acl |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 washerwoman | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 washerwoman | det |
| 7 | washerwoman | washerwoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dressed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Toad | punct |
| 9 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tells | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 story | det |
| 12 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 story | amod |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 story | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 up | punct |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 made | compound:prt |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tells | obj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 daughter | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 daughter | det |
| 19 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 daughter | amod |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 story | appos |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 trouble | case |
| 22 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 daughter | nmod |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 25 Hall | case |
| 24 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Hall | compound |
| 25 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 trouble | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 washing | punct |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 business | nmod:poss |
| 28 | washing | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 daughter | acl |
| 29 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 washing | obj |
| 30 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 business | acl |
| 31 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 30 left | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 money | punct |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 money | det |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 money | nmod:poss |
| 35 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 story | conj |
| 36 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 money | acl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tells | 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 | dress | participle | Toad not said here | still | as a washerwoman | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | Toad | a sad made story and Toad's money | horse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 3 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | wash | gerund | a married daughter in trouble near Toad Hall not said here | Toad's business | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient | ||||
| 5 | leave behind | participle | Toad's business not said here | behind property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lose | participle | Toad's money not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: 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:8.
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): R4-particle ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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