The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 4
It feels so cosy that they forget they are outside — until a sting of icy sleet reminds them how cold their toes are and how far they still have to go.
Who acts: head, Rat, sting · What happens: feel, forget, be, remind, go, sting · To what, where: cold toes, Rat, icy sleet · 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 (head, Rat, sting), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 feels | nsubj |
| 2 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 cosy | advmod |
| 4 | cosy | cosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 feels | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 forget | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 forget | nsubj |
| 7 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cosy | advcl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 outside | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 outside | cop |
| 10 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 7 forget | ccomp |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 forget | punct |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 reminds | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sting | det |
| 14 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reminds | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sleet | case |
| 16 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sleet | amod |
| 17 | sleet | sleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sting | nmod |
| 18 | reminds | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 forget | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 reminds | obj |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 cold | advmod |
| 21 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 toes | amod |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 toes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 reminds | obj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 have | cop |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 have | cc |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 far | advmod |
| 27 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 have | advmod |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 have | nsubj |
| 29 | still | still | ADV | _ | 30 have | advmod |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 toes | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 go | mark |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 have | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | head | cosy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | forget | present | Rat | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Rat | outside property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | remind speech: other | present | a sting of icy sleet | Rat's cold toes | Rat | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | present | Rat | still | far, have property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | Rat not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sting | icy sleet | nom sting «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:4.
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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