The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 25
His home had called him «sorrowfully, reproachfully, but with no bitterness or anger; only with plaintive reminder that it was there, and wanted him». (Plaintive = sad-sounding.)
Who acts: home, Plaintive · What happens: call, be, want, sound · To what, where: road, plaintive reminder · 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 (home, Plaintive), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 home | nmod:poss |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | obj |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 sorrowfully | punct |
| 7 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 4 called | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reproachfully | punct |
| 9 | reproachfully | reproachfully | ADV | _ | 7 sorrowfully | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bitterness | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 bitterness | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 bitterness | case |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 bitterness | det |
| 14 | bitterness | bitterness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 anger | cc |
| 16 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bitterness | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 reminder | punct |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 reminder | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 reminder | case |
| 20 | plaintive | plaintive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 reminder | amod |
| 21 | reminder | reminder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bitterness | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 there | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 there | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 there | cop |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 reminder | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wanted | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wanted | cc |
| 28 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bitterness | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 wanted | obj |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 28 wanted | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 37 sounding | punct |
| 33 | Plaintive | plaintive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 sounding | nsubj |
| 34 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 37 sounding | punct |
| 35 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 sounding | amod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 sad | punct |
| 37 | sounding | sound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 called | parataxis |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 sounding | punct |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 sounding | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past · perfect | road's home | road | with no bitterness or anger and plaintive reminder; sorrowfully property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | home | plaintive reminder not said here | there property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | want in a quote | past | road's home not said here | road | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sound | gerund | Plaintive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:25.
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, 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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