The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 17

«Then the whistling began.» — first «far behind him», then «far ahead of him», then «on either side», passed along the whole wood.

Who acts: whistling · What happens: begin, pass · To what, where: side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out)» 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 (whistling), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 began	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 whistling	det
4	whistling	whistling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 passed	parataxis
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 him	punct
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 him	advmod
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 far	punct
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 him	advmod
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 «	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 «	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 «	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 passed	advmod
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 passed	punct
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 passed	advmod
19	ahead	ahead	ADP	_	21 him	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 far	obl
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 far	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 far	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 passed	advmod
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 side	punct
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 side	case
27	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	28 side	det
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 passed	obl
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 side	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 passed	punct
31	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
32	along	along	ADP	_	35 wood	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wood	det
34	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 wood	amod
35	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 passed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 «	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin in a quote	past	the whistling				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	pass	participle				either side	then; then	along the whole wood; far property	tree rules

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:034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood.lesson:17.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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