The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the music and the island), sentence 16

As dawn comes, «no birds sang as they were wont to do» (wont = used to), and «all was marvellously still».

Who acts: dawn, birds, all · What happens: come, sing, be, do, use · To what, where: wont

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, birds, all), 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 comes	mark
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sang	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 sang	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 birds	det
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sang	nsubj
8	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 wont	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wont	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wont	cop
12	wont	wont	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sang	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wont	xcomp
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 sang	punct
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 wont	punct
17	wont	wont	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wont	parataxis
18	=	=	PUNCT	_	19 used	punct
19	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 wont	acl
20	to	to	ADP	_	19 used	obl
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 wont	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 still	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 still	cc
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 still	punct
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 still	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 still	cop
27	marvellously	marvellously	ADV	_	28 still	advmod
28	still	still	ADV	_	3 comes	conj
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 still	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	dawn			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express in a quote	past	no birds			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	is in a quote	past	birds = bird		wont property	tree rules
4	do in a quote	to-infinitive	birds = bird not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	use	participle		wont not said here		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	past	all		marvellously, still 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:16.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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