The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 6
Suddenly a smell reaches the Mole like an electric shock: it is HOME — his own old home, the one he ran out of on that spring morning and has hardly thought of since.
Who acts: smell, Mole · What happens: reach, be, run, think · To what, where: Mole, own old home, one
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, Mole), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 reaches | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 smell | det |
| 3 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reaches | nsubj |
| 4 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mole | det |
| 6 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reaches | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 shock | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shock | det |
| 9 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shock | amod |
| 10 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reaches | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 home | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 home | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 home | cop |
| 14 | HOME | home | ADV | _ | 19 home | advmod |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 HOME | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 home | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 home | amod |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 home | amod |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reaches | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 home | appos |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ran | nsubj |
| 24 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 one | acl:relcl |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 ran | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 out | fixed |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 morning | case |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 morning | det |
| 29 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 morning | compound |
| 30 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ran | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 thought | cc |
| 32 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 thought | aux |
| 33 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 34 thought | advmod |
| 34 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 ran | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 thought | obl |
| 36 | since | since | ADV | _ | 34 thought | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reaches | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | a smell | the Mole | like a electric shock; suddenly property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mole=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | smell | Mole's own old home | home property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | run | past | Mole | the one not said here | morning | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | present · perfect | Mole not said here | hardly, since property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:6.
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. 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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