The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the music and the island), sentence 2
No birds sing, everything is strangely still, and the roses and meadow-sweet look brighter than ever before.
Who acts: birds, everything, roses · What happens: sing, be, look
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 (birds, everything, roses), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 birds | det |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sing | nsubj |
| 3 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sing | punct |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 still | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 still | cop |
| 7 | strangely | strangely | ADV | _ | 8 still | advmod |
| 8 | still | still | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sing | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 look | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 look | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 roses | det |
| 12 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 look | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 meadow | cc |
| 14 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 roses | conj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 meadow | punct |
| 16 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 roses | conj |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sing | conj |
| 18 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 look | xcomp |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 before | mark |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 before | advmod |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 18 brighter | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | no birds | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | is | present | everything | still, strangely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | present | the roses and meadow | bright property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:2.
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 ×1, R6-punct-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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