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 24

Toad then rows the Rat's boat to the boat-house creek; two stoats on the bridge drop a great stone through the bottom of the boat, and it sinks.

Who acts: Toad, two stoats, boat · What happens: row, drop, sink · To what, where: boat, house creek, 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, two stoats, boat), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rows	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 rows	advmod
3	rows	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Rat	det
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 boat	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Rat	case
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rows	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	13 creek	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 creek	det
10	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 boat	punct
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 creek	compound
13	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rows	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 stoats	punct
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 stoats	nummod
16	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 drop	nsubj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 bridge	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bridge	det
19	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stoats	nmod
20	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rows	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 stone	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stone	amod
23	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drop	obj
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 bottom	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bottom	det
26	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drop	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 boat	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 boat	det
29	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bottom	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sinks	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sinks	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sinks	nsubj
33	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rows	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	row	present	Toad	the Rat's boat	the house creek	then	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent boat=Theme to creek=Trajectory
2	drop	present	two stoats on the bridge	a great stone	the bottom of the boat		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme through bottom=Destination
3	sink	present	boat				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.lesson:24.

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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