The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car), sentence 34
The car came first as «a faint warning hum; like the drone of a distant bee», then «a small cloud of dust, with a dark centre of energy», and «a faint "Poop-poop!" wailed like an uneasy animal in pain».
Who acts: car, faint Poop poop · What happens: come, wail, cloud · To what, where: dust
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 (car, faint Poop poop), 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 car | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 hum | case |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 hum | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hum | det |
| 8 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hum | amod |
| 9 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hum | compound |
| 10 | hum | hum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 drone | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 drone | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 drone | det |
| 14 | drone | drone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hum | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 bee | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bee | det |
| 17 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bee | amod |
| 18 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drone | nmod |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 drone | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cloud | punct |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 cloud | advmod |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 cloud | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cloud | det |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cloud | amod |
| 25 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hum | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 dust | case |
| 27 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cloud | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 centre | punct |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 centre | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 centre | det |
| 31 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 centre | amod |
| 32 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cloud | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 energy | case |
| 34 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 centre | nmod |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 cloud | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 wailed | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 wailed | cc |
| 38 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 44 poop | punct |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 poop | det |
| 40 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 poop | amod |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 poop | punct |
| 42 | Poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 poop | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 Poop | punct |
| 44 | poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 wailed | nsubj |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 44 poop | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 poop | punct |
| 47 | wailed | wail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 cloud | conj |
| 48 | like | like | ADP | _ | 51 animal | case |
| 49 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 animal | det |
| 50 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 animal | amod |
| 51 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 wailed | obl |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 pain | case |
| 53 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 animal | nmod |
| 54 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 47 wailed | punct |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the car | as a faint warning hum like the drone of a distant bee and a small cloud of dust with a dark centre of energy; first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wail in a quote | past | a faint Poop poop | like a uneasy animal in pain | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cloud in a quote | dust | with a dark centre of energy | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient with=obl |
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:34.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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