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 10
Toad opens one eye, then the other — and soon he is asking to sit in the front seat «for the fresh air», right beside the driver, as the old craving creeps over him again — and soon he will be begging to drive.
Who acts: Toad, old craving · What happens: open, ask, sit, creep, beg, drive · To what, where: one eye, front seat
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, old craving), 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 opens | nsubj |
| 2 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 eye | nummod |
| 4 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opens | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 other | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 other | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 other | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 opens | conj |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 asking | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asking | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 asking | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asking | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 asking | aux |
| 14 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 opens | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sit | mark |
| 16 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asking | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 seat | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 seat | det |
| 19 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 seat | amod |
| 20 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sit | obl |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 air | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 air | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 air | det |
| 24 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 air | amod |
| 25 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sit | obl |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 air | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 driver | punct |
| 28 | right | right | ADV | _ | 31 driver | advmod |
| 29 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 31 driver | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 driver | det |
| 31 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sit | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 creeps | punct |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 creeps | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 craving | det |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 craving | amod |
| 36 | craving | craving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 creeps | nsubj |
| 37 | creeps | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sit | advcl |
| 38 | over | over | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 creeps | obl |
| 40 | again | again | ADV | _ | 37 creeps | advmod |
| 41 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 asking | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 begging | cc |
| 43 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 47 begging | advmod |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 begging | nsubj |
| 45 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 begging | aux |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 begging | aux |
| 47 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 opens | conj |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 drive | mark |
| 49 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 begging | xcomp |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | Toad | one eye | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present · progressive | Toad | soon property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sit not said to happen | to-infinitive | Toad not said here | the front seat | for the fresh air; beside the driver | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location | |||
| 4 | creep | present | the old craving | again | over Toad | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | beg speech: request | future · progressive | Toad | soon property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | drive not said to happen | to-infinitive | Toad not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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:063-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song.lesson:10.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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