The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The Further Adventures of Toad (the horse-pond, the chase and a face in the bank), sentence 11
Two fields away, a chauffeur and two large country policemen are running after him!
Who acts: chauffeur · What happens: run
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The Further Adventures of Toad (the horse-pond, the chase and a face in the bank)» 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 (chauffeur), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 fields | nummod |
| 2 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 away | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 running | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 away | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chauffeur | det |
| 6 | chauffeur | chauffeur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 running | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 policemen | cc |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 policemen | nummod |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 policemen | amod |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 policemen | compound |
| 11 | policemen | policeman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chauffeur | conj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 running | aux |
| 13 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 running | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 running | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present · progressive | a chauffeur and two large country policemen | after gentleman | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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:064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.lesson:11.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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