The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car), sentence 14

The smell of the dust they kicked up was rich and satisfying»; rabbits in the hedgerows «held up their fore-paws, and said, "O my!

Who acts: miles, smell, rabbits, dust · What happens: kick up, be, hold up, say, smell · To what, where: dust, fore paws, my · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car)» 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 (miles, smell, rabbits, dust), 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 smell	det
2	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rich	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dust	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dust	det
5	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smell	nmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kicked	nsubj
7	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dust	acl:relcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 kicked	compound:prt
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rich	cop
10	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 satisfying	cc
12	satisfying	satisfy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rich	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 rich	punct
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 held	punct
15	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 held	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hedgerows	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hedgerows	det
18	hedgerows	hedgerow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rabbits	nmod
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 held	punct
20	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rich	parataxis
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 held	compound:prt
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 paws	nmod:poss
23	fore	fore	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 paws	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 fore	punct
25	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 held	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 held	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 my	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 my	punct
31	O	of	INTJ	_	32 my	discourse
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 said	obj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 rich	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kick up	past	miles = mile	the dust not said here		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent dust=Patient
2	is	past	the smell of the dust		rich property	tree rules
3	be		the smell of the dust not said here			tree rules
4	hold up	past	rabbits in the hedgerows	miles's fore paws		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot paw=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	rabbits in the hedgerows not said here	my		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent my=Topic
6	smell		the dust			nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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:031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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