The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins), sentence 14

The Mole learns to row and swim, and, with his ear to the reeds, begins to hear what the wind is whispering in them — the «wind in the willows» of the book's title.

Who acts: Mole, wind, book · What happens: learn, row, swim, begin, hear, whisper · To what, where: title, willows · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins)» 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 (Mole, wind, book), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 learns	nsubj
3	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 row	mark
5	row	row	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learns	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 swim	cc
7	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 row	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 begins	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 begins	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ear	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 ear	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ear	nmod:poss
13	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 begins	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 reeds	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reeds	det
16	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ear	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ear	punct
18	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 learns	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 hear	mark
20	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 begins	xcomp
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 whispering	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wind	det
23	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 whispering	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 whispering	aux
25	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 hear	ccomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 whispering	obl
28	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 wind	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wind	det
30	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 wind	punct
31	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 what	appos
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 willows	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 willows	det
34	willows	willow	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 wind	nmod
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 wind	punct
36	of	of	ADP	_	40 title	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 book	det
38	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 title	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 book	case
40	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wind	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 learns	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	present	the Mole				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	row	to-infinitive	the Mole not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	swim	infinitive	the Mole not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	present	the Mole not said here			with Mole's ear to the reeds	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	hear	to-infinitive	the Mole not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	whisper speech: assert	present · progressive	the wind			in reeds = reed	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
7	wind in a quote			the book's title	the willows		nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: in=place of=patient
8	title		the book				nom title «communication 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:028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.lesson:14.

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 ×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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