The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book), sentence 12
And Toad went from boats to caravans to motor-cars, prison, disguises and escapes, until friends who never gave up on him won his home back — and he learned, at least for one evening, to let others have the praise.
Who acts: Toad, friends, others · What happens: go, not give up, win back, learn, let, have · To what, where: boats, Toad, home, least, praise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» 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, friends, others), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 boats | case |
| 5 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 caravans | case |
| 7 | caravans | caravan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 cars | case |
| 9 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cars | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 cars | punct |
| 11 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 prison | punct |
| 13 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cars | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 disguises | punct |
| 15 | disguises | disguise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 prison | appos |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 escapes | cc |
| 17 | escapes | escape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 disguises | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 friends | punct |
| 19 | until | until | ADP | _ | 20 friends | case |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 gave | advmod |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 friends | acl:relcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 gave | compound:prt |
| 25 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 27 won | mark |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | obl |
| 27 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gave | advcl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 home | nmod:poss |
| 29 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 won | obj |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 won | advmod |
| 31 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 friends | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 learned | cc |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 learned | nsubj |
| 34 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 least | punct |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 least | case |
| 37 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 learned | obl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 evening | case |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 evening | nummod |
| 40 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 learned | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 let | punct |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 let | mark |
| 43 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 learned | ccomp |
| 44 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 have | nsubj |
| 45 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 let | xcomp |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 praise | det |
| 47 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 have | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Toad | boats | until friends | to caravans; to motor cars and prison | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from boat=Initial_Location to caravan=Destination | ||
| 2 | not give up | past | friends | Toad | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | win back | past | friends not said here | Toad's home | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | learn | past | Toad | least | evening | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | let | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | have | infinitive | others | the praise | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent praise=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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:12.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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