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 30
The passage ended under «the trap-door that led up into the butler's pantry»; all four put their shoulders to it and heaved it back.
Who acts: passage, trap door, four · What happens: end, lead up, put, heave back · To what, where: trap door, pantry, shoulders, passage, shoulder
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 (passage, trap door, four), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 passage | det |
| 2 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ended | nsubj |
| 3 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 door | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 7 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 trap | punct |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ended | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 led | nsubj |
| 11 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 door | acl:relcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 led | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 pantry | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 butler | det |
| 15 | butler | butler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pantry | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 butler | case |
| 17 | pantry | pantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | obl |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 door | punct |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 four | det |
| 21 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 put | nsubj |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ended | parataxis |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 24 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 put | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 put | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 heaved | cc |
| 28 | heaved | heave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 put | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 heaved | obj |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 heaved | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ended | 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 | end | past | the passage | the trap door | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lead up in a quote | past | the trap door | the butler's pantry | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | put | past | all four | others's shoulders | passage | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Goal | |||
| 4 | heave back | past | all four not said here | shoulder | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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:30.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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