The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»), sentence 19
She grabs him by a fore-leg and a hind-leg and throws him; «the world turned suddenly upside down» and he lands in the canal with a loud splash, with duck-weed in his eyes.
Who acts: bargewoman, world · What happens: grab, throw, turn down, land · To what, where: Toad, upside, canal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)» 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 (bargewoman, world), 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 grabs | nsubj |
| 2 | grabs | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grabs | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 leg | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 leg | det |
| 6 | fore | fore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leg | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 fore | punct |
| 8 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grabs | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 leg | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 leg | det |
| 11 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 leg | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 hind | punct |
| 13 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leg | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 throws | cc |
| 15 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grabs | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 throws | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 turned | punct |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 turned | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turned | nsubj |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grabs | parataxis |
| 22 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 21 turned | advmod |
| 23 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turned | obj |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 turned | advmod |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 turned | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lands | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lands | nsubj |
| 28 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grabs | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 canal | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 canal | det |
| 31 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lands | obl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 splash | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 splash | det |
| 34 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 splash | amod |
| 35 | splash | splash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lands | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 weed | punct |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 weed | case |
| 38 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 weed | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 duck | punct |
| 40 | weed | weed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 canal | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 eyes | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 43 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 weed | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grabs | 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 | grab | present | bargewoman | Toad | by a fore leg and a hind leg | tree rules | |||
| 2 | throw | present | bargewoman not said here | Toad | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn down in a quote | past | the world | upside | down, suddenly property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Theme | |||
| 4 | land | present | world | the canal and duck weed in world's eyes | with a loud splash | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in canal=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:062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.lesson:19.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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