The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness), sentence 0
The sun's golden disc rises over the horizon and dazzles the two friends; when they can see again, the Vision has gone, and the air is full of birds singing in the dawn.
Who acts: golden disc, friends, Vision, air, birds · What happens: rise, dazzle, see, go, be, sing · To what, where: horizon, two friends
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness)» 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 (golden disc, friends, Vision, air), 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 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disc | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 sun | case |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 disc | amod |
| 5 | disc | disc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rises | nsubj |
| 6 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 horizon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horizon | det |
| 9 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rises | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dazzles | cc |
| 11 | dazzles | dazzle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rises | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 friends | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 friends | nummod |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dazzles | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 see | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 gone | advcl |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 see | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gone | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Vision | det |
| 23 | Vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gone | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 gone | aux |
| 25 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 rises | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 full | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 full | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 air | det |
| 29 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 full | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 full | cop |
| 31 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gone | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 birds | case |
| 33 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 full | obl |
| 34 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 birds | acl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 dawn | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 dawn | det |
| 37 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 singing | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rises | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | the sun's golden disc | the horizon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over horizon=Location | ||||
| 2 | dazzle | present | the sun's golden disc not said here | the two friends | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | see | can | friends = friend | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | go | present · perfect | the Vision | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | present | the air | of birds; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sing speech: express | gerund | birds not said here | dawn | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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:051-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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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