The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness), sentence 7
A breeze blows «lightly and caressingly in their faces; and with its soft touch came instant oblivion» (oblivion = complete forgetting).
Who acts: breeze · What happens: blow, come, touch · To what, where: faces, soft touch
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 (breeze), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 breeze | det |
| 2 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blows | nsubj |
| 3 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 lightly | punct |
| 5 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 3 blows | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 caressingly | cc |
| 7 | caressingly | caressingly | ADV | _ | 5 lightly | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 faces | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 faces | nmod:poss |
| 10 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 blows | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 13 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 touch | nmod:poss |
| 15 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 touch | amod |
| 16 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blows | conj |
| 18 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 oblivion | amod |
| 19 | oblivion | oblivion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obj |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 22 oblivion | punct |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 oblivion | punct |
| 22 | oblivion | oblivion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 oblivion | conj |
| 23 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 25 forgetting | punct |
| 24 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 forgetting | amod |
| 25 | forgetting | forgetting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 oblivion | appos |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 forgetting | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | a breeze | birds's faces | lightly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | a breeze not said here | breeze's soft touch | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oblivion=Theme | ||||
| 3 | touch in a quote | breeze | nom touch «event 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:051-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness.lesson:7.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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