The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the music and the island), sentence 25
The Mole hardly dares to look up — but the call and the summons still seem to command him, so he raises his eyes.
Who acts: Mole · What happens: dare, look up, seem, command, raise · To what, where: Mole, eyes · 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), 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 | 4 dares | nsubj |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 dares | advmod |
| 4 | dares | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dares | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 look | compound:prt |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 call | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 call | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 call | det |
| 11 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dares | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seem | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 summons | det |
| 14 | summons | summon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 call | conj |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 seem | advmod |
| 16 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 call | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 command | mark |
| 18 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 seem | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 command | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 raises | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 raises | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 raises | nsubj |
| 23 | raises | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 call | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 raises | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dares | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | present | the Mole | hardly property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look up | to-infinitive | the Mole not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | seem | present | the Mole not said here | still | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | command | to-infinitive | the Mole not said here | Mole | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | raise | present | Mole | Mole's eyes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
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:25.
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. 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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