The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 9
Then they turn into a quiet backwater by a weir and an old mill, so beautiful that the Mole can only gasp «O my!
Who acts: manners, Mole · What happens: turn, gasp · To what, where: quiet backwater
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World)» 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 (manners, Mole), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turn | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 backwater | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 backwater | det |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 backwater | amod |
| 7 | backwater | backwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turn | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 weir | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 weir | det |
| 10 | weir | weir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 backwater | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mill | cc |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mill | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mill | amod |
| 14 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weir | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beautiful | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turn | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 gasp | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Mole | det |
| 20 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 gasp | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 gasp | aux |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 gasp | advmod |
| 23 | gasp | gasp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 beautiful | advcl |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 turn | punct |
| 25 | O | of | INTJ | _ | 26 my | discourse |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 turn | parataxis |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | manners | a quiet backwater by a weir and a old mill | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | gasp | can | the Mole | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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:026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.lesson:9.
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, 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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