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 21
«Solid revenge was what he wanted, not cheap, windy, verbal triumphs.» He unties the tow-rope, jumps on the horse and gallops off; that is stealing the horse.
Who acts: Solid revenge, Toad, that · What happens: be, want, untie, jump, gallop off, steal · To what, where: tow rope, horse · 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 (Solid revenge, Toad, that), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 2 | Solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 revenge | amod |
| 3 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 what | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cheap | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 cheap | advmod |
| 10 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wanted | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 windy | punct |
| 12 | windy | windy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cheap | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 triumphs | punct |
| 14 | verbal | verbal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 triumphs | amod |
| 15 | triumphs | triumph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cheap | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wanted | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 wanted | punct |
| 18 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 unties | nsubj |
| 19 | unties | untie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wanted | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rope | det |
| 21 | tow | tow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rope | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 tow | punct |
| 23 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 unties | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 jumps | punct |
| 25 | jumps | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 unties | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 horse | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 horse | det |
| 28 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 jumps | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 gallops | cc |
| 30 | gallops | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wanted | conj |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 gallops | compound:prt |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 stealing | punct |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 stealing | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 stealing | aux |
| 35 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 what | parataxis |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 horse | det |
| 37 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stealing | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | 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 | is a in a quote | past | Solid revenge | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want in a quote | past | Toad | cheap property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | untie | present | Toad | the tow rope | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient | ||||
| 4 | jump | present | Toad not said here | on the horse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | gallop off | present | Toad not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | steal | present · progressive | that | the horse | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme |
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:21.
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): R8-pos-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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