The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car), sentence 0
Full of stew and with money in his pocket, Toad marches along with his chin in the air, telling himself the story of his own cleverness: prison, train, canal, horse — he has beaten them all!
Who acts: Toad · What happens: march, tell, beat · To what, where: chin, story, Toad, prison · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car)» 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), 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 marches | advcl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 stew | case |
| 3 | stew | stew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Full | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 money | cc |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 money | case |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stew | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pocket | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 9 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 money | nmod | ||
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 marches | punct |
| 11 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 marches | nsubj |
| 12 | marches | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | along | along | ADP | _ | 16 chin | case |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 chin | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 chin | nmod:poss |
| 16 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marches | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 air | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 air | det |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chin | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 telling | punct |
| 21 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 marches | advcl |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 telling | iobj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 story | det |
| 24 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 telling | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 cleverness | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 cleverness | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cleverness | amod |
| 28 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 story | nmod |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 prison | punct |
| 30 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cleverness | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 train | punct |
| 32 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 prison | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 canal | punct |
| 34 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 prison | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 horse | punct |
| 36 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 prison | conj |
| 37 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 beaten | punct |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 beaten | nsubj |
| 39 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 beaten | aux |
| 40 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 marches | parataxis |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 beaten | obj |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 marches | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | present | Toad | Toad's chin in the air | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along chin=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Toad not said here | the story of Toad's own cleverness | Toad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 3 | beat | present · perfect | Toad | prison | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=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:063-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song.lesson:0.
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 ×2, 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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