The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to), sentence 0

The field-mice sing an old carol about standing in the cold and snow, about Joseph and Mary finding a stable, and about the animals in the stable being the first to cry «Nowell!» As they finish, far-off church bells ring out above.

Who acts: field mice, old carol, Joseph, animals, church bells · What happens: sing, stand, find, be, cry, finish · To what, where: old carol, cold, stable, Nowell »

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to)» 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 (field mice, old carol, Joseph, animals), 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	4 mice	det
2	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mice	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 field	punct
4	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sing	nsubj
5	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 carol	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 carol	amod
8	carol	carol	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sing	obj
9	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 standing	mark
10	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 carol	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 cold	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cold	det
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 standing	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 snow	cc
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cold	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 finding	punct
17	about	about	SCONJ	_	21 finding	mark
18	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 finding	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Mary	cc
20	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Joseph	conj
21	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 standing	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 stable	det
23	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 finding	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 first	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 first	cc
26	about	about	ADP	_	28 animals	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 animals	det
28	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 first	nsubj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 stable	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 stable	det
31	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 animals	nmod
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 first	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 first	det
34	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 finding	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 cry	mark
36	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 first	advcl
37	«	«	PUNCT	_	38 Nowell	punct
38	Nowell	Nowell	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 »	compound
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	38 Nowell	punct
40	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cry	obj
41	As	as	SCONJ	_	43 finish	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 finish	nsubj
43	finish	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 ring	advcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 finish	punct
45	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 bells	advmod
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 far	punct
47	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 church	compound
48	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 bells	compound
49	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 ring	nsubj
50	ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sing	parataxis
51	out	out	ADP	_	50 ring	compound:prt
52	above	above	ADV	_	50 ring	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sing	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	the field mice	a old carol			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carol=Theme
2	stand	gerund	a old carol not said here		the cold and snow		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cold=Location
3	find	gerund	Joseph and Mary	a stable			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stable=Topic
4	is	gerund	the animals in the stable			first property	tree rules
5	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	the animals in the stable not said here	Nowell »			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent »=Topic
6	finish	present	animals = animal				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	ring out	present	church bells			above property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:0.

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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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