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 23

The horse's gallop soon became a trot, and the trot a steady walk; at last it stopped on a common to nibble the grass.

Who acts: gallop, trot, horse · What happens: become, walk, stop, nibble, gallop · To what, where: trot, last, grass

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 (gallop, trot, horse), 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 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gallop	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 horse	case
4	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	nsubj
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 became	advmod
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trot	det
8	trot	trot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 walk	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 walk	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trot	det
12	trot	trot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walk	nsubj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 walk	det
14	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 walk	amod
15	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trot	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 stopped	punct
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stopped	obl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stopped	nsubj
20	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 common	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 common	det
23	common	common	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stopped	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 nibble	mark
25	nibble	nibble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 stopped	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grass	det
27	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nibble	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the horse's gallop	a trot and a steady walk		soon property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	walk		the trot				tree rules
3	stop	past	gallop		last	on a common	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
4	nibble	to-infinitive	gallop not said here	the grass			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
5	gallop		the horse				nom gallop «act transitive»: poss=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:23.

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): 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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