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 2

She peers under his bonnet — a Toad! — grabs him by a front leg and a back leg, and flings him spinning through the air into the canal.

Who acts: She · What happens: peer, grab, fling, spin · To what, where: Toad, air

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 (She), 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 peers	nsubj
2	peers	peer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 bonnet	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bonnet	nmod:poss
5	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 peers	obl
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 Toad	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Toad	det
8	Toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bonnet	appos
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 Toad	punct
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 grabs	punct
11	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 peers	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grabs	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 leg	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 leg	det
15	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 leg	amod
16	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grabs	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 leg	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 leg	det
19	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leg	compound
20	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leg	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flings	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 flings	cc
23	flings	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 peers	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 flings	obj
25	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 flings	advcl
26	through	through	ADP	_	28 air	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 air	det
28	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spinning	obl
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 canal	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 canal	det
31	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spinning	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 peers	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	peer	present	She			under Toad's bonnet	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under bonnet=Theme
2	grab	present	She not said here	Toad		by a front leg and a back leg	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	fling	present	She not said here	Toad			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	spin	gerund	She not said here		the air	into the canal	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme through air=Source into canal=Trajectory

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:2.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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