The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 29
Talk in this lesson: «nesh» (North and Midlands England) = feeling the cold easily; «ginnel» (North England) = narrow alley between houses; «I'm dead» = that's so funny; «toque» (Canada) = woolly winter hat; «bairn» (Scotland, North East) = child.
Who acts: you, home, that · What happens: talk, feel, be · To what, where: nesh, lesson, cold · 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 (you, home, that), 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 | Talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 lesson | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 « | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 nesh | punct |
| 7 | nesh | nesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obj |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 nesh | punct |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 England | punct |
| 10 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 England | compound |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Midlands | cc |
| 12 | Midlands | Midlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 North | conj |
| 13 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 nesh | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 England | punct |
| 15 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 16 feeling | punct |
| 16 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Talk | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cold | det |
| 18 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feeling | obj |
| 19 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 16 feeling | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 ginnel | punct |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 ginnel | punct |
| 22 | ginnel | ginnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 22 ginnel | punct |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 England | punct |
| 25 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 England | compound |
| 26 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 ginnel | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 England | punct |
| 28 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 30 alley | punct |
| 29 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 alley | amod |
| 30 | alley | alley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ginnel | conj |
| 31 | between | between | ADP | _ | 32 houses | case |
| 32 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 alley | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 » | punct |
| 34 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 37 dead | punct |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 dead | nsubj |
| 36 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 dead | cop |
| 37 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 38 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 37 dead | punct |
| 39 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 43 funny | punct |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 funny | nsubj |
| 41 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 funny | cop |
| 42 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 funny | advmod |
| 43 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 dead | parataxis |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 » | punct |
| 45 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 46 toque | punct |
| 46 | toque | toque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 funny | obl |
| 47 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 46 toque | punct |
| 48 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 49 Canada | punct |
| 49 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 toque | appos |
| 50 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 49 Canada | punct |
| 51 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 54 hat | punct |
| 52 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 hat | amod |
| 53 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 hat | compound |
| 54 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 toque | conj |
| 55 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 58 » | punct |
| 56 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 57 bairn | punct |
| 57 | bairn | bairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 toque | conj |
| 58 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 57 bairn | punct |
| 59 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 60 Scotland | punct |
| 60 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 bairn | appos |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 East | punct |
| 62 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 63 East | compound |
| 63 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 Scotland | conj |
| 64 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 60 Scotland | punct |
| 65 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 66 child | punct |
| 66 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 toque | conj |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | nesh | this lesson | ginnel and narrow alley between houses obl | tree rules | ||
| 2 | feel | gerund | you not said here | the cold | easily property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | road's home = home | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | that | toque and woolly winter hat and bairn and child obl; funny property | tree rules |
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:29.
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 ×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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