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 29

Toad flies «with the strong upward rush and delicate curve of a swallow» and wonders if he will turn into «a Toad-bird», then lands on his back in soft meadow grass.

Who acts: Toad, cry · What happens: fly, wonder, turn, land · To what, where: back

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, cry), 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 flies	nsubj
2	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 rush	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 rush	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rush	det
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rush	amod
7	upward	upward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rush	amod
8	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flies	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 curve	cc
10	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 curve	amod
11	curve	curve	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rush	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 swallow	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 swallow	det
14	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 curve	nmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 rush	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wonders	cc
17	wonders	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 flies	conj
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 turn	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 turn	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 turn	aux
21	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wonders	ccomp
22	into	into	ADP	_	27 bird	case
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 bird	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bird	det
25	Toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bird	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Toad	punct
27	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turn	obl
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 bird	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lands	punct
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 lands	advmod
31	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 flies	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 back	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 back	nmod:poss
34	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lands	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 grass	case
36	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 grass	amod
37	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 grass	compound
38	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lands	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flies	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	Toad			with the strong upward rush and delicate curve of a swallow	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wonder speech: ask	present	Toad not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	turn a condition, not said to happen	future	cry			into a Toad bird result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bird=Result
4	land	present	Toad not said here	cry's back	then	in soft meadow grass	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on back=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:064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.lesson:29.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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