The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 4
Then the moon rises and the meadows, gardens and river appear again in silver, like old friends in new clothes; the two search hedges, hollow trees and ditches until the moon sinks and the mystery comes back.
Who acts: moon, meadows, mystery · What happens: rise, appear, sink, come back · To what, where: silver
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 (moon, meadows, mystery), 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 rises | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moon | det |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rises | nsubj |
| 4 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 appear | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 meadows | det |
| 7 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 appear | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gardens | punct |
| 9 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 meadows | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 river | cc |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meadows | conj |
| 12 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rises | conj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 appear | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 silver | case |
| 15 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appear | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 friends | punct |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 friends | case |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 friends | amod |
| 19 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 appear | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 clothes | case |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 clothes | amod |
| 22 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 friends | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 hedges | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hedges | det |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 hedges | nummod |
| 26 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hedges | compound |
| 27 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 clothes | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 trees | punct |
| 29 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 trees | amod |
| 30 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hedges | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 ditches | cc |
| 32 | ditches | ditch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hedges | conj |
| 33 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 36 sinks | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 moon | det |
| 35 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sinks | nsubj |
| 36 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 hedges | advcl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 comes | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 mystery | det |
| 39 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 comes | nsubj |
| 40 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 sinks | conj |
| 41 | back | back | ADV | _ | 40 comes | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rises | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | the moon | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | the meadows and gardens and river | silver | again | like old friends in new clothes and the two search hedges and hollow trees and ditches | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in silver=Location | ||
| 3 | sink | present | the moon | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | come back | present | the mystery | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.lesson:4.
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, R8-pos-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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