The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 22

People, says the writer, have only the word «smell» for all the «delicate thrills which murmur in the nose of the animal night and day, summoning, warning, inciting, repelling».

Who acts: writer, People, delicate thrills · What happens: say, have, murmur, summon, warn, incite · To what, where: word, nose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of 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 (writer, People, delicate thrills), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 have	parataxis
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 writer	det
5	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 word	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 word	det
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 smell	punct
12	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 word	appos
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 smell	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	19 thrills	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 thrills	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thrills	det
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 thrills	punct
18	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thrills	amod
19	thrills	thrill	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obl
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 murmur	nsubj
21	murmur	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 thrills	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 nose	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 nose	det
24	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 murmur	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 night	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 night	det
27	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 night	compound
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 nose	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 day	cc
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 night	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 summoning	punct
32	summoning	summon	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 murmur	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 warning	punct
34	warning	warn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 summoning	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 inciting	punct
36	inciting	incite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 summoning	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 repelling	punct
38	repelling	repel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 summoning	conj
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	32 summoning	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the writer				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	People	the word		for all delicate thrills	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
3	murmur speech: other in a quote	present	all delicate thrills		the nose of the animal night and day		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nose=Location
4	summon in a quote	gerund	all delicate thrills not said here				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	warn speech: warn in a quote	gerund	all delicate thrills not said here				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
6	incite in a quote	gerund	all delicate thrills not said here				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition
7	repel in a quote	gerund	all delicate thrills not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:041-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home.lesson:22.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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