The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the music and the island), sentence 1

The Mole hears only the wind in the reeds, but he rows on where the Rat nods, up a backwater towards the great weir; at last the music reaches him too, and he sees tears on his friend's cheeks.

Who acts: Mole, Rat, music · What happens: hear, row on, nod, reach, see · To what, where: wind, reeds, Mole, tears, cheeks

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 (Mole, Rat, music), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hears	nsubj
3	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 reaches	parataxis
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 wind	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hears	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 reeds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reeds	det
9	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wind	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rows	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 rows	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rows	nsubj
13	rows	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hears	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 rows	compound:prt
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 nods	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Rat	det
17	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 nods	nsubj
18	nods	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rows	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 backwater	punct
20	up	up	ADP	_	22 backwater	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 backwater	det
22	backwater	backwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nods	obl
23	towards	towards	ADP	_	26 weir	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 weir	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 weir	amod
26	weir	weir	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 backwater	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 last	punct
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 last	case
29	last	last	ADV	Degree=Sup	32 reaches	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 music	det
31	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 reaches	nsubj
32	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 reaches	obj
34	too	too	ADV	_	32 reaches	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sees	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sees	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 sees	nsubj
38	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 reaches	conj
39	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 sees	obj
40	on	on	ADP	_	44 cheeks	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 friend	nmod:poss
42	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 cheeks	nmod:poss
43	's	's	PART	_	42 friend	case
44	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 sees	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hears	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	present	the Mole	the wind	the reeds		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wind=Stimulus
2	row on	present	Mole				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	nod	present	the Rat			up a backwater towards the great weir	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	reach	present	the music	Mole			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at last=Asset
5	see	present	music	tears	music's friend's cheeks		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tear=Stimulus

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:1.

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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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