The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 18
In the dark they keep starting at what seems to be a sudden clear call from a real voice.
Who acts: shadows · What happens: keep, start, seem, be · To what, where: dark, sudden clear call, real voice
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing)» 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 (shadows), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 dark | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dark | det |
| 3 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 9 seems | mark |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 seems | nsubj |
| 9 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 starting | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 call | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 call | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 call | det |
| 13 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 call | amod |
| 14 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 call | amod |
| 15 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seems | xcomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 voice | det |
| 18 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voice | amod |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 call | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | shadows = shadow | the dark | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start | gerund | shadows = shadow not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | seem | present | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | a sudden clear call | a real voice | tree rules |
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:049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.lesson:18.
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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