The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 3
Then the whistling begins — faint and shrill, behind him, then ahead, then on both sides, passed along through the whole wood.
Who acts: whistling · What happens: begin, pass along · To what, where: sides, whole wood
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 begins | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whistling | det |
| 3 | whistling | whistling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begins | nsubj |
| 4 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 faint | punct |
| 6 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 begins | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shrill | cc |
| 8 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 faint | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 him | punct |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begins | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 him | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 ahead | advmod |
| 14 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 4 begins | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sides | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 sides | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 sides | case |
| 18 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 sides | det |
| 19 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 begins | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 passed | punct |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sides | acl |
| 22 | along | along | ADV | _ | 21 passed | advmod |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 wood | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wood | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wood | amod |
| 26 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 passed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begins | 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 | present | the whistling | both sides | then | behind hole; ahead property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | pass along | participle | both sides not said here | the whole wood | along property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=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:034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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