The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 23
The smell is «the fine filament, the telegraphic current» (a thin thread, like a telegraph wire's signal).
Who acts: smell, telegraph wire · What happens: be, signal · To what, where: fine filament
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 (smell, telegraph wire), 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 smell | det |
| 2 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filament | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 filament | cop |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 filament | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 filament | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 filament | amod |
| 7 | filament | filament | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 current | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 current | det |
| 10 | telegraphic | telegraphic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 current | amod |
| 11 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filament | conj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 current | punct |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 thread | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thread | det |
| 15 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thread | amod |
| 16 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filament | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 signal | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 signal | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 wire | det |
| 20 | telegraph | telegraph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wire | compound |
| 21 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 signal | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 wire | case |
| 23 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thread | nmod |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 thread | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 filament | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the smell | the fine filament and the telegraphic current | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | signal | a telegraph wire | nom signal «communication transitive»: poss=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.
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:23.
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, R7-rel-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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