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 24

On a common (open wild land with gorse and bramble) he finds a caravan and a man sitting on an upturned bucket, smoking, with an iron pot of stew on a fire of sticks.

Who acts: horse, man · What happens: find, sitting, smoking, fire · To what, where: caravan, common open wild land, upturned bucket, sticks

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 (horse, man), 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	On	on	ADP	_	7 land	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 land	det
3	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 land	amod
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 land	amod
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 land	amod
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 finds	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 gorse	case
9	gorse	gorse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 land	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bramble	cc
11	bramble	bramble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gorse	conj
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 land	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 finds	nsubj
14	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 caravan	det
16	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 finds	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 man	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 caravan	conj
20	sitting	sitting	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 man	acl
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 bucket	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bucket	det
23	upturned	upturned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bucket	amod
24	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sitting	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 smoking	punct
26	smoking	smoking	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 sitting	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pot	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 pot	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pot	det
30	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pot	compound
31	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 caravan	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 stew	case
33	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pot	nmod
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 fire	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fire	det
36	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pot	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 sticks	case
38	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fire	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 finds	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	find	present	horse	a caravan and a man and a iron pot of stew on a fire of sticks	a common open wild land with gorse and bramble	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravan=Topic
2	sitting	gerund	a man not said here		a upturned bucket	tree rules
3	smoking	gerund	a man not said here			tree rules
4	fire			sticks		nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient

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:24.

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 ×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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