The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 10
The stay-at-homes ask: «Why this craving for change?
What happens: ask
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: 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 stay | det |
| 2 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Why | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 homes | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 homes | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 at | punct |
| 6 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stay | nmod |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 10 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 ask | parataxis |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 craving | det |
| 12 | craving | craving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Why | nsubj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 change | case |
| 14 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 craving | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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.
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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. 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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