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 2
Toad wants to argue, but he catches sight of himself in the mirror, the rusty black bonnet perched over one eye, and goes upstairs quickly and humbly.
Who acts: Toad · What happens: want, argue, catch, perch, go, sight · To what, where: sight, mirror, rusty black bonnet, one eye, Toad
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 (Toad), 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 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 argue | mark |
| 4 | argue | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 catches | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 catches | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 catches | nsubj |
| 8 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wants | conj |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 catches | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 sight | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 mirror | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mirror | det |
| 14 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 catches | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bonnet | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bonnet | det |
| 17 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bonnet | amod |
| 18 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bonnet | amod |
| 19 | bonnet | bonnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mirror | appos |
| 20 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 bonnet | acl |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 eye | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 eye | nummod |
| 23 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 perched | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 goes | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 goes | cc |
| 26 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 catches | conj |
| 27 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 26 goes | advmod |
| 28 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 26 goes | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 humbly | cc |
| 30 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 28 quickly | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Toad | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree not said to happen | to-infinitive | Toad not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | catch | present | Toad | sight of Toad | the mirror | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 4 | perch | participle | the rusty black bonnet not said here | one eye | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over eye=Location | ||||
| 5 | go | present | Toad not said here | quickly, upstairs property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sight | Toad | nom sight «cognition 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:2.
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, 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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