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 7

Toad flies through the air like a swallow and lands on his back in soft grass; the gentlemen and the driver flounder in the pond in their long coats.

Who acts: Toad, gentlemen · What happens: fly, land, flounder · To what, where: air, back, 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 (Toad, gentlemen), 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	through	through	ADP	_	5 air	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 air	det
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flies	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 swallow	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 swallow	det
8	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flies	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lands	cc
10	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 flies	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 back	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 back	nmod:poss
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lands	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 grass	case
15	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grass	amod
16	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lands	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 gentlemen	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gentlemen	det
19	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flounder	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 driver	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 driver	det
22	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gentlemen	conj
23	flounder	flounder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 flies	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 pond	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pond	det
26	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flounder	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 coats	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 coats	nmod:poss
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 coats	amod
30	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flounder	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flies	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fly	present	Toad	the air	like a swallow	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through air=Location
2	land	present	Toad not said here	Bravo's back	in soft grass	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on back=Destination
3	flounder	present	the gentlemen and the driver	the pond	in gentlemen's long coats	tree rules

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:7.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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