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 9

Toad dreams of roads running away from him, canals chasing him, a barge sailing into his dinner-party with his washing, and the secret passage twisting and sitting up on its end — but at last he is home and safe, and everybody tells him he is clever.

Who acts: Toad, roads, canals, barge, secret passage, everybody · What happens: dream, run away, chase, sail, twist, sit up · To what, where: Toad, dinner party, end, last · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Toad, roads, canals, barge), 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 dreams	nsubj
2	dreams	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 roads	case
4	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dreams	obl
5	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 roads	acl
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 running	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 away	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 canals	punct
10	canals	canal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roads	conj
11	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 canals	acl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 chasing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 barge	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 barge	det
15	barge	barge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 canals	conj
16	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 barge	acl
17	into	into	ADP	_	21 party	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 party	nmod:poss
19	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 party	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 dinner	punct
21	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sailing	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 washing	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 washing	nmod:poss
24	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 party	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 twisting	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 twisting	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 passage	det
28	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 passage	amod
29	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 twisting	nsubj
30	twisting	twist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sailing	advcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sitting	cc
32	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 twisting	conj
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 sitting	compound:prt
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 end	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 end	nmod:poss
36	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sitting	obl
37	—	-	PUNCT	_	53 clever	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 clever	cc
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 last	case
40	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 clever	obl
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 home	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 home	cop
43	home	home	ADV	_	53 clever	parataxis
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 safe	cc
45	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 home	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 tells	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 tells	cc
48	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	49 tells	nsubj
49	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 clever	conj
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 tells	obj
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 clever	nsubj
52	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 clever	cop
53	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dreams	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dreams	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream	present	Toad					of roads and canals and a barge	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	run away	gerund	roads and canals and a barge not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	chase	gerund	canals and a barge not said here	Toad					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	sail	gerund	a barge not said here			Toad's dinner party with Toad's washing			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into party=Trajectory
5	twist	gerund	the secret passage						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	sit up	gerund	the secret passage not said here				on passage's end		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location
7	is	present	Toad					home property	tree rules
8	be		Toad not said here						tree rules
9	tell speech: assert	present	everybody		Toad				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
10	is	present	Toad			last		clever property	tree rules
11	wash		Toad						nom washing «act transitive»: poss=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.

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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 ×3, 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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