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 36
Looking back over his shoulder, he runs off the edge of the bank and «found himself head over ears in deep water»: the river.
Who acts: song · What happens: look back, run off, find · To what, where: edge, song
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 (song), 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 runs | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 shoulder | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 runs | nsubj |
| 8 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 edge | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 edge | det |
| 11 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 runs | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bank | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bank | det |
| 14 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 edge | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 runs | conj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 found | obj |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 ears | case |
| 21 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 head | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 » | case |
| 23 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 water | amod |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 » | compound |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 river | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 river | det |
| 28 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 runs | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | song not said here | over song's shoulder | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run off | present | song | the edge of the bank | the river obl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme edge=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | find in a quote | past | song not said here | song | head over ears obl:unmarked | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
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:36.
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, R6-punct-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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