The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the music and the island), sentence 20
The Rat whispers: «Here, in this holy place, here if anywhere, surely we shall find Him!»
Who acts: Rat, we · What happens: whisper, find · To what, where: Mole · 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 (Rat, we), 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 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whispers | nsubj |
| 3 | whispers | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 whispers | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 Here | punct |
| 6 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 find | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 place | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 place | det |
| 10 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 place | amod |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Here | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 here | punct |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 place | advmod |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 anywhere | mark |
| 15 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 here | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 17 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 20 find | advmod |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 whispers | ccomp |
| 21 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 find | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 whispers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: express | present | the Rat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find in a quote | shall | we | Mole | here | surely property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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:20.
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, 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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