The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End), sentence 28
«The signals were coming through!» Then: «a short, quick run forward—a fault—a check—a try back; and then a slow, steady, confident advance» (words from hunting dogs following a scent).
Who acts: signals, you, words, dogs · What happens: come through, «, hunt, follow · To what, where: short quick run, scent · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End)» 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 (signals, you, words, dogs), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 signals | det |
| 3 | signals | signal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 coming | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 coming | aux |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 « | parataxis |
| 6 | through | through | ADV | _ | 5 coming | advmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 9 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 coming | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 « | punct |
| 11 | « | « | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 run | det |
| 13 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 run | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 quick | punct |
| 15 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 run | amod |
| 16 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 « | obj |
| 17 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 16 run | advmod |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 fault | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fault | det |
| 20 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 run | parataxis |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 check | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 check | det |
| 23 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fault | conj |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 try | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 try | det |
| 26 | try | try | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 run | conj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 try | advmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 » | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 » | cc |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 advance | advmod |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 advance | det |
| 32 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 advance | amod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 slow | punct |
| 34 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 advance | amod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 steady | punct |
| 36 | confident | confident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 advance | amod |
| 37 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 » | compound |
| 38 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 try | parataxis |
| 39 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 words | punct |
| 40 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 » | appos |
| 41 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 42 hunting | mark |
| 42 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 words | acl |
| 43 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 words | nmod |
| 44 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 dogs | acl |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 scent | det |
| 46 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 following | obj |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 40 words | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 « | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come through in a quote | past · progressive | the signals | then | through property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | « | imperative | you not said here | a short quick run and a try | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | words dogs not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | dogs not said here | a scent | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Theme |
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:042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.lesson:28.
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 ×9, R6-punct-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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