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 26
Toad asks to sit «on the front seat there, beside the driver, where I could get the fresh air full in my face»; the gentleman says «What a very sensible woman!»
Who acts: Toad, gentleman · What happens: ask, sit, get, say · To what, where: front seat, fresh air · 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, gentleman), 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 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 sit | mark |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asks | xcomp |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 seat | punct |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 seat | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 seat | det |
| 8 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seat | amod |
| 9 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sit | obl |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 seat | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 driver | punct |
| 12 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 14 driver | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 driver | det |
| 14 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sit | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 get | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 get | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 get | aux |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sit | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 air | det |
| 21 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 air | amod |
| 22 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obj |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 get | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 face | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 face | nmod:poss |
| 26 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 full | obl |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 face | punct |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 says | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 gentleman | det |
| 30 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 says | nsubj |
| 31 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asks | parataxis |
| 32 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 33 What | punct |
| 33 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 37 woman | det:predet |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 woman | det |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 sensible | advmod |
| 36 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 woman | amod |
| 37 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 says | ccomp |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| 39 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Toad | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sit not said to happen | to-infinitive | Toad not said here | the front seat | beside the driver | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seat=Location | |||
| 3 | get in a quote | could | the gentleman = gentleman | the fresh air | full property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer air=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | the gentleman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:26.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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