The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes), sentence 35
The snow made the wood «a gleaming carpet of faery» (faery = fairyland) that «looked too delicate to be trodden upon by rough feet», and «a fine powder filled the air and caressed the cheek with a tingle».
Who acts: snow, gleaming carpet, rough feet, fine powder · What happens: make, gleam, look, tread, fill, caress · To what, where: wood, air, cheek
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes)» 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 (snow, gleaming carpet, rough feet, fine powder), 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 snow | det |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wood | det |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 carpet | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 carpet | det |
| 8 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 carpet | amod |
| 9 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 faery | case |
| 11 | faery | faery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carpet | nmod |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 faery | punct |
| 14 | faery | faery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 faery | appos |
| 15 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 16 fairyland | punct |
| 16 | fairyland | fairyland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 faery | conj |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 faery | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carpet | acl:relcl |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 delicate | advmod |
| 22 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 looked | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 trodden | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 trodden | aux:pass |
| 25 | trodden | tread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 delicate | xcomp |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 trodden | obl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 feet | case |
| 28 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 feet | amod |
| 29 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 trodden | obl:agent |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 filled | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 filled | cc |
| 33 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 37 filled | punct |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 powder | det |
| 35 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 powder | amod |
| 36 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 filled | nsubj |
| 37 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 air | det |
| 39 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 filled | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 caressed | cc |
| 41 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 filled | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 cheek | det |
| 43 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 caressed | obj |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 tingle | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 tingle | det |
| 46 | tingle | tingle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 caressed | obl |
| 47 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 37 filled | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the snow | the wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset wood=Beneficiary carpet=Product | ||||
| 2 | gleam in a quote | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | look in a quote | past | a gleaming carpet of faery | delicate property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | tread in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | rough feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fill in a quote | past | a fine powder | the air | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient | ||||
| 6 | caress in a quote | past | a fine powder not said here | the cheek | with a tingle | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cheek=Experiencer with tingle=Instrument |
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.
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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, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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