The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the music and the island), sentence 8
In old Greek stories this figure is Pan, the god of wild places, shepherds and flocks; the book never says his name and tells the scene quietly, as something holy and mysterious.
Who acts: figure, book · What happens: be, not say, tell, name · To what, where: Pan, old Greek stories, name, scene · 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 (figure, book), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 stories | case |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stories | amod |
| 3 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stories | amod |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Pan | obl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 figure | det |
| 6 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Pan | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Pan | cop |
| 8 | Pan | Pan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 god | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 god | det |
| 11 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Pan | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 places | case |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 places | amod |
| 14 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 god | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shepherds | punct |
| 16 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 places | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flocks | cc |
| 18 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 places | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 Pan | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 book | det |
| 21 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 says | nsubj |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 says | advmod |
| 23 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Pan | parataxis |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 name | nmod:poss |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 says | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 tells | cc |
| 27 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 says | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 scene | det |
| 29 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tells | obj |
| 30 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 27 tells | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 as | punct |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 something | case |
| 33 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 tells | obl |
| 34 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 something | amod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 mysterious | cc |
| 36 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 holy | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Pan | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this figure | Pan | old Greek stories | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | present | the book | book's name | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | the book not said here | the scene | as something; quietly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scene=Recipient | |||
| 4 | name | book | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:8.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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