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 18
Stole a horse—sold him for a large sum of money!
What happens: steal, sell, sum · To what, where: horse, money
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: 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 | Stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stole | obj |
| 4 | — | — | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stole | punct |
| 5 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stole | parataxis |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sold | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 sum | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sum | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sum | amod |
| 10 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sold | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 money | case |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sum | nmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stole | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | a horse | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sell | past | horse | for a large sum of money | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme for sum=Asset | ||||
| 3 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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:18.
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): no change. 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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