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 30
His new song: «The motor-car went Poop-poop-poop, / As it raced along the road. / Who was it steered it into a pond? / Ingenious Mr.
Who acts: new song, car, cry · What happens: go, race, steer, sing · To what, where: Poop poop poop, road, car, pond
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 (new song, car, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 song | nmod:poss |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 song | amod |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 car | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 car | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 car | det |
| 7 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 car | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 motor | punct |
| 9 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 poop | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Poop | punct |
| 13 | poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 poop | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 poop | punct |
| 15 | poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 raced | punct |
| 17 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 20 raced | punct |
| 18 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 raced | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 raced | nsubj |
| 20 | raced | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | advcl |
| 21 | along | along | ADP | _ | 23 road | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 road | det |
| 23 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 raced | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 25 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 29 steered | punct |
| 26 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 steered | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 steered | aux:pass |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 steered | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | steered | steer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 went | parataxis |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 steered | obj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 pond | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 pond | det |
| 33 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 steered | obl |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 33 pond | punct |
| 35 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 36 Ingenious | punct |
| 36 | Ingenious | Ingenious | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 pond | conj |
| 37 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Ingenious | flat |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | cry's new song | Poop poop poop | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location poop=Theme | ||||
| 2 | race in a quote | past | car | the road | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | steer in a quote | past · passive | car | a pond and Ingenious | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sing | cry | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:30.
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 ×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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