The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»), sentence 17
Each animal got «a belt... and then a sword... and then a cutlass on the other side to balance it.
Who acts: animal · What happens: get, balance · To what, where: belt, animal
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»)» 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 (animal), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 belt | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 belt | det |
| 6 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 7 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 11 sword | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sword | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 sword | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sword | det |
| 11 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 belt | conj |
| 12 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 16 cutlass | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cutlass | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 cutlass | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cutlass | det |
| 16 | cutlass | cutlass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sword | appos |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 side | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 side | amod |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cutlass | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 balance | mark |
| 22 | balance | balance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 cutlass | acl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 balance | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | each animal | a belt and a sword | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer belt=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | balance in a quote | to-infinitive | each animal not said here | animal | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
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:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.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): R5-strong ×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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