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 22
The Rat lists what Toad has been: «handcuffed, imprisoned, starved, chased, terrified out of your life, insulted, jeered at, and ignominiously flung into the water—by a woman, too!» (ignominiously = shamefully)
Who acts: Rat · What happens: list, handcuff, imprison, starve, chase, insult · To what, where: Toad, water
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 (Rat), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lists | nsubj |
| 3 | lists | list | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 lists | obj |
| 5 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 handcuffed | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 handcuffed | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 handcuffed | aux:pass |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 handcuffed | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 handcuffed | punct |
| 10 | handcuffed | handcuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 what | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 imprisoned | punct |
| 12 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 handcuffed | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 starved | punct |
| 14 | starved | starve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 handcuffed | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chased | punct |
| 16 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 starved | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 terrified | punct |
| 18 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 starved | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 life | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 life | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 terrified | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 insulted | punct |
| 24 | insulted | insult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 terrified | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 jeered | punct |
| 26 | jeered | jeer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 insulted | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 jeered | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 flung | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 flung | cc |
| 30 | ignominiously | ignominiously | ADV | _ | 31 flung | advmod |
| 31 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 handcuffed | conj |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 water | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 water | det |
| 34 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 flung | obl |
| 35 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 woman | punct |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 woman | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 woman | det |
| 38 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 flung | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 too | punct |
| 40 | too | too | ADV | _ | 31 flung | advmod |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 lists | punct |
| 42 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 lists | punct |
| 43 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 shamefully | punct |
| 44 | ignominiously | ignominiously | ADV | _ | 46 shamefully | advmod |
| 45 | = | = | SYM | _ | 46 shamefully | punct |
| 46 | shamefully | shamefully | ADV | _ | 3 lists | parataxis |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 shamefully | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | list | present | the Rat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | handcuff in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Toad | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | imprison in a quote | participle | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | starve in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | chase in a quote | participle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | insult in a quote | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | jeer in a quote | participle | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | fling in a quote | participle | the water | by a woman; ignominiously property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into water=Destination |
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:22.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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