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 7

He collapses in a heap in the road, groaning at what a fool he has been to strut about singing instead of hiding till dark.

Who acts: Toad · What happens: collapse, groan, have, be, strut, sing · To what, where: heap, fool, hiding

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 collapses	nsubj
2	collapses	collapse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 heap	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 heap	det
5	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 collapses	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 collapses	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 groaning	punct
10	groaning	groan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 collapses	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 what	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 groaning	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fool	det
14	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 what	nsubj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fool	acl:relcl
17	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 has	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 strut	mark
19	strut	strut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 been	xcomp
20	about	about	SCONJ	_	21 singing	mark
21	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 strut	advcl
22	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	24 hiding	mark
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 instead	fixed
24	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 singing	obl
25	till	till	ADP	_	26 dark	case
26	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hiding	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 collapses	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	collapse	present	Toad		a heap	in the road	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	groan	gerund	Toad not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	have	present	Toad	a fool not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Patient
4	be	participle	Toad not said here				tree rules
5	strut	to-infinitive	Toad not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sing speech: express	gerund	Toad not said here	hiding			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:7.

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 ×3. 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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