The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 15
Piles of «wheat, oats, barley, beech-mast and nuts» lie ready to be moved (beech-mast = the little nuts of the beech tree).
Who acts: Piles · What happens: lie, move
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 (Piles), 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 | Piles | pile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lie | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 wheat | case |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 wheat | punct |
| 4 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Piles | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 oats | punct |
| 6 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wheat | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 barley | punct |
| 8 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wheat | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mast | punct |
| 10 | beech | beech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mast | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 beech | punct |
| 12 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wheat | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 nuts | cc |
| 14 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wheat | conj |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 wheat | punct |
| 16 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lie | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 moved | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 moved | aux:pass |
| 20 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 ready | xcomp |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 mast | punct |
| 22 | beech | beech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mast | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 beech | punct |
| 24 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 moved | parataxis |
| 25 | = | = | SYM | _ | 28 nuts | dep |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 nuts | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 nuts | amod |
| 28 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 mast | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 tree | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 tree | det |
| 31 | beech | beech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tree | compound |
| 32 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 nuts | nmod |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 mast | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | Piles of wheat and oats and barley and beech mast and nuts | ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | move | to-infinitive · passive | Piles of wheat and oats and barley and beech mast and nuts not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V» |
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:15.
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 ×2. 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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