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 25

The gentlemen say: «Here is a poor old thing—a washerwoman apparently—who has fainted in the road!» They lift him into the car and prop him up with soft cushions, meaning to take her on to the nearest village, where she probably has friends.

Who acts: gentlemen, poor old thing, world · What happens: say, be, faint, lift, prop up, mean · To what, where: poor old thing, road, washerwoman, car, world, nearest village · 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 (gentlemen, poor old thing, world), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gentlemen	det
2	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 :	punct
6	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 :	advmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 thing	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	ccomp
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 washerwoman	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 washerwoman	det
14	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thing	appos
15	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	14 washerwoman	advmod
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 fainted	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 fainted	nsubj
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fainted	aux
19	fainted	faint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 thing	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 road	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 road	det
22	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fainted	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct
25	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lift	nsubj
26	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lift	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 car	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 car	det
30	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lift	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 prop	cc
32	prop	prop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 lift	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 prop	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 prop	compound:prt
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 cushions	case
36	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 cushions	amod
37	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 prop	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 meaning	punct
39	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 prop	advcl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 take	mark
41	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 meaning	xcomp
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 take	obj
43	on	on	ADP	_	47 village	case
44	to	to	ADP	_	47 village	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 village	det
46	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	47 village	amod
47	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 take	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 has	punct
49	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	52 has	advmod
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 has	nsubj
51	probably	probably	ADV	_	52 has	advmod
52	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 village	acl:relcl
53	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 has	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	the gentlemen					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present		a poor old thing				tree rules
3	faint in a quote	present · perfect	a poor old thing			the road		vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	lift	present	gentlemen = gentleman	washerwoman		the car		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into car=Destination
5	prop up	present	gentlemen = gentleman not said here		washerwoman		with soft cushions	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent he=Destination
6	mean	gerund	gentlemen = gentleman not said here					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	gentlemen = gentleman not said here	world		the nearest village		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on village=Destination
8	have	present	world	friends			probably property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient

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.

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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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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