--- title: The lovely canary-coloured cart lies on its side, smashed beyond rep… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The lovely canary-coloured cart lies on its side, smashed beyond repair, sardine tins everywhere and the bird in its cage sobbing to be let out. Who acts: lovely coloured cart, bird. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely coloured cart, bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.lesson:1 # text = The lovely canary-coloured cart lies on its side, smashed beyond repair, sardine tins everywhere and the bird in its cage sobbing to be let out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.lesson # annotation = 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 2 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 3 canary canary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 smashed smashed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod 13 beyond beyond ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 repair repair NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 sardine sardine NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 tins tin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 parataxis _ _ 18 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 16 advmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 sobbing sob VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 let let VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 xcomp _ _ 29 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | the lovely coloured cart | | | cart's side | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | | 2 | **sob** | gerund | the bird in cart's cage *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **let out** | to-infinitive · passive | the bird in cart's cage *not said here* | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient» | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.lesson:1`. **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. **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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