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 20
«He sang as he walked, and he walked as he sang, and got more inflated every minute.» (inflated = puffed up, like a balloon)
Who acts: book · What happens: sing, walk, get, inflate, puff up · 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 (book), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 sang | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sang | nsubj |
| 3 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 walked | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 walked | nsubj |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sang | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 walked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 walked | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 walked | nsubj |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sang | conj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 sang | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sang | nsubj |
| 13 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 walked | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 got | cc |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 walked | conj |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 inflated | advmod |
| 18 | inflated | inflate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 got | xcomp |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 minute | det |
| 20 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 inflated | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sang | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 sang | punct |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 inflated | punct |
| 24 | inflated | inflate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 puffed | dep |
| 25 | = | = | SYM | _ | 24 inflated | punct |
| 26 | puffed | puff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sang | parataxis |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 puffed | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 balloon | punct |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 balloon | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 balloon | det |
| 31 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 puffed | parataxis |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 balloon | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | past | book | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | walk in a quote | past | book | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | walk in a quote | past | book | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express in a quote | past | book | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 5 | get in a quote | past | book not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | inflate in a quote | participle | book not said here | minute | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | inflate | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 8 | puff up | participle | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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:20.
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. 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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