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 22
The barge runs aground (gets stuck on the bottom) on the other side of the canal; the woman shouts «Stop, stop, stop!», just as the policemen on the engine shouted in chapter VIII.
Who acts: barge, woman, policemen · What happens: run, get, stick, shout, stop · To what, where: other side, bottom, chapter · 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 (barge, woman, policemen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 barge | det |
| 2 | barge | barge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 runs | nsubj |
| 3 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | aground | aground | ADV | _ | 3 runs | advmod |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 gets | punct |
| 6 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 runs | conj |
| 7 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gets | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 bottom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bottom | det |
| 10 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stuck | obl |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 stuck | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 side | amod |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 runs | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 canal | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 canal | det |
| 18 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 shouts | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shouts | nsubj |
| 22 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 runs | parataxis |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 Stop | case |
| 24 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 shouts | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stop | punct |
| 26 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 Stop | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stop | punct |
| 28 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 Stop | conj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 runs | punct |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 runs | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 policemen | punct |
| 32 | just | just | ADV | _ | 39 shouted | advmod |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 shouted | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 policemen | det |
| 35 | policemen | policeman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 shouted | nsubj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 engine | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 engine | det |
| 38 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 policemen | nmod |
| 39 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 runs | advcl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 chapter | case |
| 41 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 shouted | obl |
| 42 | VIII | VIII | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 41 chapter | flat |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 runs | 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 | run | present | the barge | the other side of the canal | aground property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | get | present | the barge not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | stick | participle | the barge not said here | the bottom | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on bottom=Destination | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | present | the woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | stop in a quote | infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | stop in a quote | infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 7 | stop in a quote | infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 8 | shout speech: express | past | the policemen on the engine | chapter | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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:062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.lesson:22.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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