The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»), sentence 17
Toad's father «discovered that passage—he didn't make it, of course; that was done hundreds of years before» — and «repaired it and cleaned it out».
Who acts: father · What happens: discover, not make, done, repair, clean out · To what, where: passage, that
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»)» 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 (father), 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 | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Toad | case |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discovered | nsubj |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 discovered | punct |
| 5 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 passage | det |
| 7 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discovered | obj |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 make | advmod |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 discovered | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 of | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 make | obl |
| 16 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 of | fixed |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 hundreds | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 done | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux:pass |
| 20 | done | done | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 discovered | parataxis |
| 21 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 done | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 years | case |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hundreds | nmod |
| 24 | before | before | ADV | _ | 23 years | advmod |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 — | punct |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 hundreds | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 repaired | cc |
| 28 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 repaired | punct |
| 29 | repaired | repair | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 discovered | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 repaired | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 cleaned | cc |
| 32 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 repaired | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 cleaned | obj |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 cleaned | compound:prt |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 29 repaired | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover in a quote | past | Toad's father | that passage | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not make in a quote | past · do-support | father | passage | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | ||||
| 3 | done in a quote | past · passive | that | hundreds of years obl:unmarked | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | repair in a quote | past | Toad's father not said here | passage | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | clean out in a quote | past | Toad's father not said here | passage | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:17.
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): 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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