The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the music and the island), sentence 14

The Mole at first hears «nothing ... but the wind playing in the reeds and rushes and osiers» (osiers = willows with long thin bendy twigs).

Who acts: Mole, wind · What happens: hear, play · To what, where: nothing, reeds · Speech: someone speaks here

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, wind), 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	5 hears	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 hears	case
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 hears	advmod
5	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	«	«	ADP	_	7 nothing	case
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 hears	obj
8	...	...	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 wind	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wind	det
11	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothing	conj
12	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 wind	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 reeds	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 reeds	det
15	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 playing	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rushes	cc
17	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 reeds	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 osiers	cc
19	osiers	osier	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 reeds	conj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 osiers	punct
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 osiers	punct
22	osiers	osier	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 reeds	conj
23	=	=	PUNCT	_	24 willows	punct
24	willows	willow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 osiers	appos
25	with	with	ADP	_	29 twigs	case
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 twigs	amod
27	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 twigs	amod
28	bendy	bendy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 twigs	amod
29	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 willows	nmod
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 willows	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hears	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	hear	present	the Mole	nothing				first property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	play in a quote	gerund	the wind not said here			the reeds and rushes and osiers and osiers			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:14.

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): 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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