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 21
On the high road he sees «a speck that turned into a dot and then into a blob, and then into something very familiar».
Who acts: book, speck · What happens: see, turn · To what, where: speck, high road, dot · 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, speck), 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 | _ | 4 road | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 road | det |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 road | amod |
| 4 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sees | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sees | nsubj |
| 6 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 speck | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 speck | det |
| 9 | speck | speck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sees | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 speck | acl:relcl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 dot | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dot | det |
| 14 | dot | dot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 blob | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 blob | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 blob | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 blob | det |
| 19 | blob | blob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 familiar | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 familiar | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 familiar | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 something | case |
| 24 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 familiar | obl |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 familiar | advmod |
| 26 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 turned | conj |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 sees | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sees | 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 | see | present | book | a speck | the high road | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer speck=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | turn in a quote | past | a speck | a dot | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into dot=Trajectory |
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:21.
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): no change. 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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