The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 3

Behind one drawn blind they see the shadow of a bird-cage and a little bird who wakes, yawns and tucks his head back in.

Who acts: Rat, little bird · What happens: draw, see, wake, yawn, tuck, shadow · To what, where: one, shadow, head, bird cage

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 (Rat, little bird), 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	Behind	behind	ADP	_	3 drawn	mark
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 drawn	nsubj:pass
3	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 see	advcl
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drawn	xcomp
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shadow	det
8	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 cage	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cage	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cage	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 bird	punct
13	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shadow	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bird	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bird	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bird	amod
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cage	conj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 wakes	nsubj
19	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 bird	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 yawns	punct
21	yawns	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wakes	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tucks	cc
23	tucks	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wakes	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tucks	obj
26	back	back	ADV	_	27 in	advmod
27	in	in	ADV	_	23 tucks	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	participle · passive		one	blind property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	see	present	Rat	the shadow of a bird cage and a little bird		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus
3	wake	present	a little bird			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	yawn	present	a little bird not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tuck	present	a little bird not said here	bird's head		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme
6	shadow			a bird cage and a little bird		nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, 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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