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 4
When they call «Be careful, washerwoman!» Toad loses his head.
Who acts: gentlemen, Toad · What happens: call, be, lose · To what, where: head · 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 (gentlemen, Toad), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 call | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 call | nsubj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 loses | advcl |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 careful | punct |
| 5 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 careful | cop |
| 6 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 call | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 washerwoman | punct |
| 8 | washerwoman | washerwoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | parataxis |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 loses | punct |
| 11 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loses | nsubj |
| 12 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loses | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 loses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: express | present | gentlemen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | gentlemen not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose | present | Toad | Bravo's head | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality |
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:4.
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. 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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