The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 17

Toad «came down to breakfast disgracefully late» and found «a certain quantity of egg-shells, some fragments of cold and leathery toast, a coffee-pot three-fourths empty».

Who acts: Toad · What happens: come down, find · To what, where: breakfast, certain quantity

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» 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), 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 came	nsubj
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 breakfast	case
6	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	disgracefully	disgracefully	ADV	_	8 late	advmod
8	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 came	advmod
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 quantity	det
14	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 quantity	amod
15	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 shells	case
17	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shells	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 egg	punct
19	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 quantity	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fragments	punct
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 fragments	det
22	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 quantity	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 toast	case
24	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 toast	amod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 leathery	cc
26	leathery	leathery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cold	conj
27	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fragments	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pot	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 pot	det
30	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pot	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 coffee	punct
32	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 quantity	conj
33	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 fourths	nummod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 three	punct
35	fourths	fourth	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 empty	obl:unmarked
36	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pot	acl
37	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down in a quote	past	Toad			breakfast		down, late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to breakfast=Initial_Location
2	find	past	Toad not said here	a certain quantity of egg shells and some fragments of cold toast and a coffee pot					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Topic

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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.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 ×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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