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 9

They think he is a poor old washerwoman who has fainted from the heat, and kindly lift him into the car.

Who acts: gentlemen, Toad, poor old washerwoman · What happens: think, be, faint, lift · To what, where: poor old washerwoman, Toad, car · 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, Toad, poor old washerwoman), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 washerwoman	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 washerwoman	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 washerwoman	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 washerwoman	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 washerwoman	amod
8	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 think	ccomp
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 fainted	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fainted	aux
11	fainted	faint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 washerwoman	acl:relcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 heat	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 heat	det
14	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fainted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lift	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lift	cc
17	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	18 lift	advmod
18	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 think	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lift	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 car	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 car	det
22	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lift	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	gentlemen = gentleman				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Toad	a poor old washerwoman			tree rules
3	faint	present · perfect	a poor old washerwoman			from the heat	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from heat=Stimulus
4	lift	infinitive	gentlemen = gentleman not said here	Toad	the car	kindly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into car=Destination

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:9.

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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