The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the music and the island), sentence 0
As dawn creeps closer, a breeze stirs the reeds and the Rat suddenly hears far-off piping, music so beautiful that it almost hurts, with a call in it that is «stronger even than the music is sweet».
Who acts: dawn, breeze, Rat, call · What happens: creep, stir, hear, hurt, be · To what, where: reeds, off piping
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the music and the island)» 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 (dawn, breeze, Rat, call), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 creeps | mark |
| 2 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 creeps | nsubj |
| 3 | creeps | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stirs | advcl |
| 4 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 creeps | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 creeps | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 breeze | det |
| 7 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stirs | nsubj |
| 8 | stirs | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 reeds | det |
| 10 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stirs | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hears | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Rat | det |
| 13 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 hears | nsubj |
| 14 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 15 hears | advmod |
| 15 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stirs | conj |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 piping | advmod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 far | punct |
| 18 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 piping | compound |
| 19 | piping | piping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hears | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 music | punct |
| 21 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 piping | appos |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 beautiful | advmod |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 music | amod |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 hurts | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 hurts | nsubj |
| 26 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 27 hurts | advmod |
| 27 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 beautiful | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 call | punct |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 call | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 call | det |
| 31 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hurts | appos |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 call | nmod |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 sweet | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 sweet | cop |
| 36 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 37 stronger | punct |
| 37 | stronger | strong | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 43 sweet | advmod |
| 38 | even | even | ADV | _ | 43 sweet | advmod |
| 39 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 43 sweet | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 music | det |
| 41 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sweet | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 sweet | cop |
| 43 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 call | acl:relcl |
| 44 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 43 sweet | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stirs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | present | dawn | close property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stir | present | a breeze | the reeds | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus reed=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | hear | present | the Rat | off piping | suddenly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer piping=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | hurt | present | Rat | almost property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | a call in breeze | strong, sweet property | 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:050-willows-ch7-part2-the-piper.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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