The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to), sentence 15
«Goodman Joseph toiled through the snow— / Saw the star o'er a stable low; / Mary she might not further go».
Who acts: Goodman, Mary · What happens: toil, see, not go · To what, where: snow, star
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 (Goodman, Mary), 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 | _ | 4 toiled | punct |
| 2 | Goodman | Goodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 toiled | nsubj |
| 3 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Goodman | flat |
| 4 | toiled | toil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Saw | parataxis |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 snow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 snow | det |
| 7 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 toiled | obl |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 toiled | punct |
| 9 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 10 Saw | punct |
| 10 | Saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 star | det |
| 12 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Saw | obj |
| 13 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 16 low | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 low | det |
| 15 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 low | amod |
| 16 | low | low | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Saw | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 18 | / | / | SYM | _ | 19 Mary | punct |
| 19 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 go | nsubj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 go | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 go | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 go | advmod |
| 23 | further | further | ADV | _ | 24 go | advmod |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 low | parataxis |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 toiled | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character, act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toil in a quote | past | Goodman | the snow | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through snow=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | the star | o'er a stable low | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not go in a quote | might | Mary | further property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:15.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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