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 5
He pins the driver down with his elbow, goes full speed and shouts who he really is: «I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes!» The whole party jumps up to seize him — and nobody stops the car.
Who acts: Bravo, Toad, car snatcher, nobody · What happens: pin down, go, shout, be, escape, jump up · To what, where: driver, full speed, Toad, Bravo, car · 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 (Bravo, Toad, car snatcher, nobody), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pins | nsubj |
| 2 | pins | pin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 driver | det |
| 4 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pins | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 pins | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 elbow | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 elbow | nmod:poss |
| 8 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pins | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 goes | punct |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pins | conj |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 speed | amod |
| 12 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shouts | cc |
| 14 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 speed | conj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 is | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 is | nsubj |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 18 is | advmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shouts | ccomp |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 47 jumps | punct |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 Toad | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 Toad | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Toad | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Toad | det |
| 24 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 jumps | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 snatcher | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 snatcher | det |
| 27 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 car | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 motor | punct |
| 29 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 snatcher | compound |
| 30 | snatcher | snatcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 jumps | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 breaker | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 breaker | det |
| 33 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 breaker | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 prison | punct |
| 35 | breaker | breaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 snatcher | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Toad | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Toad | det |
| 38 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 snatcher | conj |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 escapes | nsubj |
| 40 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 41 escapes | advmod |
| 41 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 Toad | acl:relcl |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 snatcher | punct |
| 43 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 46 party | punct |
| 44 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 party | det |
| 45 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 party | amod |
| 46 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 jumps | nsubj |
| 47 | jumps | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pins | conj |
| 48 | up | up | ADP | _ | 47 jumps | compound:prt |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 seize | mark |
| 50 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 jumps | advcl |
| 51 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 seize | obj |
| 52 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 seize | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 stops | cc |
| 54 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 55 stops | nsubj |
| 55 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 seize | conj |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 car | det |
| 57 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 stops | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pin down | present | Bravo | the driver | with Bravo's elbow | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent driver=Patient with elbow=Instrument | |||
| 2 | go | present | Bravo not said here | full speed | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location speed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | present | Bravo not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Bravo | the Toad | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | escape in a quote | present | the Toad | always property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | jump up | present | the car snatcher and the prison breaker and the Toad | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | seize | to-infinitive | the car snatcher and the prison breaker and the Toad not said here | Bravo | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 8 | stop | present | nobody | the car | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector car=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:5.
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, R7-rel-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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