The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 1
The author says the countryside is like a big hotel at the end of the holiday season: the guests pack, pay and leave one by one, and those who stay on feel unsettled and a little cross — why can't everyone just stay and be jolly?
Who acts: author, countryside, guests, everyone · What happens: say, be, pack, pay, leave, stay on · To what, where: end, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air)» 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 (author, countryside, guests, everyone), 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 author | det |
| 2 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 countryside | det |
| 5 | countryside | countryside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hotel | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hotel | cop |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 hotel | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hotel | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hotel | amod |
| 10 | hotel | hotel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | ccomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hotel | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 season | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 season | det |
| 16 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 season | compound |
| 17 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 end | nmod |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 pack | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 guests | det |
| 20 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pack | nsubj |
| 21 | pack | pack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hotel | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pay | punct |
| 23 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 pack | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 leave | cc |
| 25 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 pack | conj |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 leave | obj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 one | case |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 one | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 those | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 those | cc |
| 31 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 pack | conj |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 stay | nsubj |
| 33 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 those | acl:relcl |
| 34 | on | on | ADV | _ | 35 feel | advmod |
| 35 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 stay | conj |
| 36 | unsettled | unsettle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 feel | xcomp |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 cross | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 cross | det |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 cross | amod |
| 40 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 unsettled | conj |
| 41 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 stay | punct |
| 42 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 47 stay | advmod |
| 43 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 stay | aux |
| 44 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 stay | advmod |
| 45 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 47 stay | nsubj |
| 46 | just | just | ADV | _ | 47 stay | advmod |
| 47 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 those | conj |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 jolly | cc |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 50 jolly | cop |
| 50 | jolly | jolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 stay | conj |
| 51 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the author | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the countryside | at the end of the holiday season | like a big hotel | tree rules | |||
| 3 | pack | present | the guests | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pay | infinitive | the guests not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | leave | present | the guests not said here | one | by one | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Theme by one=Location | |||
| 6 | stay on | present | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | feel | present | unsettle property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | not stay | can | everyone | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | is | infinitive | everyone not said here | jolly property | tree rules |
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:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson:1.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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