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 3
Toad swims to the bank, the wet cotton gown dragging at him, and runs after the barge wanting revenge.
Who acts: Toad, wet cotton gown · What happens: swim, drag, run, wanting · To what, where: bank, revenge
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 (Toad, wet cotton gown), 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 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 swims | nsubj |
| 2 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 bank | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bank | det |
| 5 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swims | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gown | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gown | det |
| 8 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gown | amod |
| 9 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gown | compound |
| 10 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swims | conj |
| 11 | dragging | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 gown | acl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dragging | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 runs | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 runs | cc |
| 16 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 swims | conj |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 barge | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 barge | det |
| 19 | barge | barge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 runs | obl |
| 20 | wanting | wanting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 runs | advcl |
| 21 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wanting | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swims | 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 | swim | present | Toad | the bank | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bank=Destination | ||||
| 2 | drag | gerund | the wet cotton gown not said here | at Toad | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at he=Location | ||||
| 3 | run | present | Toad not said here | after the barge | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wanting | gerund | Toad not said here | revenge | tree rules |
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:3.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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