Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 0
In «The Wind in the Willows» Toad is tried by magistrates, given twenty years and dragged to the deepest dungeon of an old castle, while the crowd pelts him with carrots.
Who acts: magistrates, crowd · What happens: try, give, drag, pelt · To what, where: Toad, Wind, deepest dungeon
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» of the history 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 (magistrates, crowd), 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 | In | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 Wind | case |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Wind | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wind | det |
| 4 | Wind | wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tried | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Willows | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Willows | det |
| 7 | Willows | willow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Wind | nmod |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 Wind | punct |
| 9 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tried | aux:pass |
| 11 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 magistrates | case |
| 13 | magistrates | magistrate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tried | obl:agent |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tried | conj |
| 16 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 given | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dragged | cc |
| 19 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 given | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 dungeon | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dungeon | det |
| 22 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 dungeon | amod |
| 23 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dragged | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 castle | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 castle | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 castle | amod |
| 27 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dungeon | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 pelts | punct |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 32 pelts | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 crowd | det |
| 31 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pelts | nsubj |
| 32 | pelts | pelt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 dragged | advcl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 pelts | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 carrots | case |
| 35 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 pelts | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present · passive | magistrates | Toad | the Wind in the Willows | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | give | participle | magistrates not said here | year | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drag | participle | magistrates not said here | the deepest dungeon of a old castle | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to dungeon=Destination | ||||
| 4 | pelt | present | the crowd | Toad | with carrots | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with carrot=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.
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