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 27

The party cry «Seize the Toad, the wicked animal who stole our motor-car!»; the book says they «should have remembered to stop the motor-car somehow before playing any pranks of that sort».

Who acts: party, wicked animal, cry, snatcher · What happens: cry, seize, steal, say, remember, stop · To what, where: Toad, motor car, pranks · 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 (party, wicked animal, cry, snatcher), 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 party	det
2	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cry	nsubj
3	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 says	nsubj:outer
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Seize	punct
5	Seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cry	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Toad	det
7	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Seize	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 animal	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animal	det
10	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 animal	amod
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Toad	appos
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 stole	nsubj
13	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 animal	acl:relcl
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 car	nmod:poss
15	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 car	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 motor	punct
17	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stole	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Seize	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 cry	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 says	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 book	det
22	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 says	nsubj
23	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 remembered	nsubj
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 remembered	punct
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 remembered	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 remembered	aux
28	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 says	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 stop	mark
30	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 remembered	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 car	det
32	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 car	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 motor	punct
34	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stop	obj
35	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	30 stop	advmod
36	before	before	SCONJ	_	37 playing	mark
37	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 stop	advcl
38	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 pranks	det
39	pranks	prank	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 playing	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 sort	case
41	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 sort	det
42	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 pranks	nmod
43	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 remembered	punct
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cry	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express		the party			tree rules
2	seize in a quote	infinitive		the Toad		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Theme
3	steal in a quote	past	the wicked animal	our motor car		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location car=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	cry			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	remember in a quote	should · perfect	snatcher			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	stop in a quote	to-infinitive	snatcher not said here	the motor car	somehow property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality car=Eventuality
7	play in a quote	gerund	snatcher not said here	any pranks of that sort		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prank=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:27.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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