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 38

The chapter ends: «with his ear to the reed-stems he caught, at intervals, something of what the wind went whispering so constantly among them.»

Who acts: chapter, wind · What happens: end, catch, go, whisper · To what, where: something, intervals · 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 (chapter, wind), 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 chapter	det
2	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ends	nsubj
3	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 ear	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 ear	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 ear	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ear	nmod:poss
8	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ends	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 stems	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stems	det
11	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stems	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 reed	punct
13	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ear	nmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 caught	nsubj
15	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ends	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 intervals	punct
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 intervals	case
18	intervals	interval	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 caught	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 something	punct
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 caught	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 what	case
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 went	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wind	det
24	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 something	acl:relcl
26	whispering	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 went	xcomp
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 constantly	advmod
28	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	26 whispering	advmod
29	among	among	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 whispering	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ends	punct
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 ends	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	end	present	the chapter			with chapter's ear to the reed stems	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	catch in a quote	past	chapter	something	intervals		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent something=Theme at interval=Asset
3	go in a quote	past	the wind				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	whisper speech: assert in a quote	gerund	the wind not said here			among intervals = interval; constantly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location

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:38.

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 ×3. 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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