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 6
Afterwards Toad sends the gaoler's daughter a gold chain and locket with pearls and a modest, grateful letter; the engine-driver is thanked and paid for his trouble; and, though Toad grumbles terribly, the barge-woman is paid for her horse.
Who acts: Toad · What happens: send, thank, pay, grumble, trouble · To what, where: gold chain, daughter, engine driver, barge woman
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), 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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 3 sends | advmod |
| 2 | Toad | toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | nsubj |
| 3 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gaoler | det |
| 5 | gaoler | gaoler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 gaoler | case |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chain | det |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chain | compound |
| 10 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 locket | cc |
| 12 | locket | locket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chain | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 pearls | case |
| 14 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 locket | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 letter | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 letter | det |
| 17 | modest | modest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 letter | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 modest | punct |
| 19 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 letter | amod |
| 20 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chain | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 thanked | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 driver | det |
| 23 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 driver | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 engine | punct |
| 25 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 thanked | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 thanked | aux:pass |
| 27 | thanked | thank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sends | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 paid | cc |
| 29 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 thanked | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 trouble | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 32 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 paid | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 paid | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 paid | cc |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 and | punct |
| 36 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 38 grumbles | mark |
| 37 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 grumbles | nsubj |
| 38 | grumbles | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 paid | advcl |
| 39 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 38 grumbles | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 grumbles | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 woman | det |
| 42 | barge | barge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 woman | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 barge | punct |
| 44 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 paid | aux:pass |
| 46 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sends | conj |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 horse | case |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 horse | nmod:poss |
| 49 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 paid | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | Toad | a gold chain and locket with pearls and a modest grateful letter | the gaoler's daughter | afterwards property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Destination chain=Theme | ||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | present · passive | the engine driver | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pay | participle | for Toad's trouble | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for trouble=Theme | |||||
| 4 | grumble speech: other | present | Toad | terribly property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | pay | present · passive | the barge woman | for woman's horse | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for horse=Theme | ||||
| 6 | trouble | Toad | nom trouble «cognition 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.
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:6.
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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