The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 16
The Mole sees «the dust lying thick on everything … the cheerless, deserted look of the long-neglected house, and its narrow, meagre dimensions» (meagre = small and poor).
Who acts: Mole, dust · What happens: see, lie, desert, neglect · To what, where: dust, everything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside)» 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 (Mole, dust), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mole | det |
| 2 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sees | nsubj |
| 3 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 dust | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dust | det |
| 6 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sees | obj |
| 7 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 dust | acl |
| 8 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lying | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 everything | case |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 lying | obl |
| 11 | … | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 look | det |
| 13 | cheerless | cheerless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 look | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 15 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 look | amod |
| 16 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dust | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 neglected | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 long | punct |
| 21 | neglected | neglect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 house | amod |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 look | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dimensions | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 dimensions | cc |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 dimensions | nmod:poss |
| 26 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 dimensions | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 narrow | punct |
| 28 | meagre | meagre | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 dimensions | amod |
| 29 | dimensions | dimension | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 look | conj |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 29 dimensions | punct |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 meagre | punct |
| 32 | meagre | meagre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sees | parataxis |
| 33 | = | = | SYM | _ | 34 small | punct |
| 34 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 meagre | amod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 poor | cc |
| 36 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 small | conj |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 small | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | the Mole | the dust and the cheerless deserted look of the neglected house and house's narrow meagre dimensions | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dust=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lie in a quote | gerund | the dust and the cheerless deserted look of the neglected house and house's narrow meagre dimensions not said here | everything | thick property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on everything=Location | |||
| 3 | desert in a quote | participle | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | neglect in a quote | participle | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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:043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.lesson:16.
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, 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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