The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the music and the island), sentence 9
This is the book's mystical scene: the author tells of a holy, wonderful meeting, as a story, without ever naming the Piper.
Who acts: This, author · What happens: be, tell, name · To what, where: mystical scene, Piper · 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 (This, author), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 scene | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 scene | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 book | det |
| 4 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 scene | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 book | case |
| 6 | mystical | mystical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 scene | amod |
| 7 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 tells | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 author | det |
| 10 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tells | nsubj |
| 11 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 scene | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 meeting | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 meeting | det |
| 14 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 meeting | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 holy | punct |
| 16 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 meeting | amod |
| 17 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tells | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 story | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 story | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 story | det |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tells | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 naming | punct |
| 23 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 25 naming | mark |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 naming | advmod |
| 25 | naming | name | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 tells | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Piper | det |
| 27 | Piper | piper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 naming | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 scene | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the book's mystical scene | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | the author | of a holy wonderful meeting | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | name | gerund | the author not said here | the Piper | ever | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piper=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:9.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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