The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness), sentence 6

Now «the air was full of the carol of birds that hailed the dawn»: the birds sing again (hailed = greeted).

Who acts: air, carol, birds · What happens: be, hail, sing, greet, carol · To what, where: birds · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (air, carol, birds), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 full	advmod
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 carol	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 carol	det
9	carol	carol	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 birds	case
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 carol	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hailed	nsubj
13	hailed	hail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 carol	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dawn	det
15	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hailed	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 hailed	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 birds	det
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sing	nsubj
20	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 full	parataxis
21	again	again	ADV	_	20 sing	advmod
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 hailed	punct
23	hailed	hail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 full	conj
24	=	=	SYM	_	25 greeted	punct
25	greeted	greet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 hailed	parataxis
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	25 greeted	punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	the air		now	of the carol of birds; full property	tree rules
2	hail in a quote	past	the carol of birds		dawn		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	sing speech: express	present	the birds		again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	hail	participle	the air not said here				vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
5	greet speech: greet	participle					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	carol in a quote			birds			nom carol «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:6.

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. 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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