The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad news), sentence 13
A large tear rolls down each of Toad's cheeks, plop! plop!
Who acts: large tear · What happens: roll down · To what, where: each
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad news)» 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 (large tear), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tear | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tear | amod |
| 3 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rolls | nsubj |
| 4 | rolls | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 each | advmod |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 rolls | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cheeks | case |
| 8 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Toad | case |
| 10 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 each | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 plop | punct |
| 12 | plop | plop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cheeks | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 plop | punct |
| 14 | plop | plop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cheeks | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 rolls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll down | present | a large tear | each | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.lesson:13.
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): 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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