The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home), sentence 32
Far ahead they saw «a glint of the familiar old river».
Who acts: part, familiar old river · What happens: see, glint · To what, where: glint
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home)» 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 (part, familiar old river), 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 ahead | advmod |
| 2 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 glint | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 glint | det |
| 7 | glint | glint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 10 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 river | amod |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 river | amod |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glint | nmod |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 glint | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | part | a glint of the familiar old river | ahead property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glint=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | glint in a quote | the familiar old river | nom glint «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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): 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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