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 13
The current sweeps him along until he grabs the edge of a big dark hole in the bank.
Who acts: current, gentleman · What happens: sweep, grab · To what, where: gentleman, edge
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 (current, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 current | det |
| 2 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sweeps | nsubj |
| 3 | sweeps | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sweeps | obj |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 sweeps | advmod |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 grabs | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grabs | nsubj |
| 8 | grabs | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sweeps | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 edge | det |
| 10 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grabs | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hole | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hole | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hole | amod |
| 14 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hole | amod |
| 15 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 edge | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bank | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bank | det |
| 18 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hole | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sweeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | present | the current | gentleman | along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme | |||
| 2 | grab | present | gentleman | the edge of a big dark hole in the bank | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=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.
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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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