The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to), sentence 22
Then «a chink of coin passing from paw to paw».
Who acts: chink · What happens: pass · To what, where: paw
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 (chink), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 chink | advmod |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 chink | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chink | det |
| 4 | chink | chink | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 coin | case |
| 6 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chink | nmod |
| 7 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 chink | acl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 paw | case |
| 9 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passing | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 paw | case |
| 11 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passing | obl |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 chink | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chink | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass in a quote | gerund | a chink of coin not said here | paw | to paw | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from paw=Initial_Location to paw=Destination |
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:22.
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): no change. 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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