The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 3

The animals tell stories of the summer — which the writer paints as a play where the flowers come on stage one by one, until June arrives.

Who acts: animals, writer, flowers, June · What happens: tell, paint, come, arrive · To what, where: stories, summer, one, stage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone)» 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 (animals, writer, flowers, June), 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 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 summer	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 summer	det
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stories	nmod
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 paints	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 writer	det
11	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paints	nsubj
12	paints	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 summer	acl:relcl
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 play	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 play	det
15	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paints	obl
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 come	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flowers	det
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	nsubj
19	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 play	acl:relcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 stage	case
21	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 come	obl
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 one	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 one	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 arrives	punct
26	until	until	SCONJ	_	28 arrives	mark
27	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 arrives	nsubj
28	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the animals	stories of the summer			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	paint	present	the writer	the summer		as a play	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent which=Theme as play=Attribute
3	come	present	the flowers	one by one	stage		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stage=Location
4	arrive	present	June				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.lesson:3.

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, 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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