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 12
Toad runs, calling himself a conceited ass, looks back over his shoulder — and runs straight into the river.
Who acts: Toad · What happens: run, call, look back · To what, where: gentleman, river · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 runs | nsubj |
| 2 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 calling | punct |
| 4 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 runs | advcl |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 calling | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ass | det |
| 7 | conceited | conceited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ass | amod |
| 8 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 calling | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looks | punct |
| 10 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 runs | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 looks | advmod |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 shoulder | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 back | obl |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 runs | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 runs | cc |
| 17 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 runs | conj |
| 18 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 21 river | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 river | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 river | det |
| 21 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 runs | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | Toad | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call | gerund | Toad not said here | gentleman | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | look back | present | Toad not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | run | present | Toad not said here | into the river result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into river=Result |
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:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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