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 8

Toad runs off, then laughs till he has to sit down, and sings again: «Who was it steered it into a pond?

Who acts: Toad, gentleman · What happens: run off, laugh, have, sit down, sing, steer · To what, where: pond · 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 (Toad, gentleman), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 runs	nsubj
2	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 runs	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 laughs	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 laughs	advmod
6	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 runs	conj
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 has	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 laughs	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sit	mark
11	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 has	xcomp
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 sit	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sings	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sings	cc
15	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 runs	conj
16	again	again	ADV	_	15 sings	advmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 steered	punct
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 steered	punct
19	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	22 steered	obj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 steered	aux:pass
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 steered	nsubj:pass
22	steered	steer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 sings	ccomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 steered	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 pond	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 pond	det
26	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 steered	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 runs	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: express
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	run off	present	Toad				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	laugh	present	Toad not said here			then	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	gentleman				tree rules
4	sit down	to-infinitive	gentleman not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sing speech: express	present	Toad not said here			again	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	steer in a quote	past · passive		pond	a pond		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:8.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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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