The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 13
He wanders into «the great sea of wheat», a «forest of stiff strong stalks that carried their own golden sky away over his head».
Who acts: Rat, stiff strong stalks · What happens: wander, carry · To what, where: great sea, own golden sky
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 (Rat, stiff strong stalks), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wanders | nsubj |
| 2 | wanders | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 4 | « | « | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sea | amod |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wanders | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 » | case |
| 9 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sea | nmod |
| 10 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sea | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forest | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 13 | « | « | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 forest | amod |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sea | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 stalks | case |
| 16 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stalks | amod |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stalks | amod |
| 18 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 forest | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 carried | nsubj |
| 20 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stalks | acl:relcl |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sky | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sky | amod |
| 23 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sky | amod |
| 24 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carried | obj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 carried | advmod |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 » | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 head | nmod:poss |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carried | obl |
| 29 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 away | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanders | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | present | Rat | the great sea wheat of » | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Destination | ||||
| 2 | carry in a quote | past | stiff strong stalks | stalks's own golden sky | Rat's head obl; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=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:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson:13.
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): R5-strong ×3. 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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