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The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat), sentence 10

As he passes under the little bridge — Crash! — a great stone dropped by two stoats smashes through the bottom of the boat, and Toad has to swim for it while they laugh.

Who acts: Toad, great stone, stoats · What happens: pass, drop, smash, have, swim, laugh · To what, where: little bridge, great stone, bottom

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat)» 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, great stone, stoats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

marknsubjadvclcasedetamodoblpunctconjpunctpunctdetamodnsubjaclcasenummodoblcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctccnsubjconjmarkxcompcaseoblmarknsubjadvclpunctrootAsSCONJhePRONpassesVERBunderADPtheDETlittleADJbridgeNOUN—PUNCTCrashNOUN!PUNCT—PUNCTaDETgreatADJstoneNOUNdroppedVERBbyADPtwoNUMstoatsNOUNsmashesVERBthroughADPtheDETbottomNOUNofADPtheDETboatNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJToadPROPNhasVERBtoPARTswimVERBforADPitPRONwhileSCONJtheyPRONlaughVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasSCONJ_3 passesmark
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 passesnsubj
3passespassVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 smashesadvcl
4underunderADP_7 bridgecase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 bridgedet
6littlelittleADJDegree=Pos7 bridgeamod
7bridgebridgeNOUNNumber=Sing3 passesobl
8—-PUNCT_9 Crashpunct
9CrashcrashNOUNNumber=Sing7 bridgeconj
10!!PUNCT_9 Crashpunct
11—-PUNCT_19 smashespunct
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 stonedet
13greatgreatADJDegree=Pos14 stoneamod
14stonestoneNOUNNumber=Sing19 smashesnsubj
15droppeddropVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass14 stoneacl
16bybyADP_18 stoatscase
17twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card18 stoatsnummod
18stoatsstoatNOUNNumber=Plur15 droppedobl
19smashessmashVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
20throughthroughADP_22 bottomcase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 bottomdet
22bottombottomNOUNNumber=Sing19 smashesobl
23ofofADP_25 boatcase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 boatdet
25boatboatNOUNNumber=Sing22 bottomnmod
26,,PUNCT_29 haspunct
27andandCCONJ_29 hascc
28ToadToadPROPNNumber=Sing29 hasnsubj
29hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 smashesconj
30totoPART_31 swimmark
31swimswimVERBVerbForm=Inf29 hasxcomp
32forforADP_33 itcase
33ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 swimobl
34whilewhileSCONJ_36 laughmark
35theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs36 laughnsubj
36laughlaughVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin31 swimadvcl
37..PUNCT_19 smashespunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1passpresentToadthe little bridge and Crashvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under bridge=Location
2dropparticiplea great stone not said hereby two stoatsvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by stoat=Trajectory
3smashpresenta great stonethe bottom of the boatvn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through bottom=Destination
4havepresentToadtree rules
5swimto-infinitiveToad not said herefor boatvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6laughpresentstoats = stoatvn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.lesson:10.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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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