The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 16
They cry: «Here's old Ratty!
Who acts: Piles · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: old Ratty · 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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cry | nsubj |
| 2 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 « | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 cry | punct |
| 5 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 Ratty | advmod |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Ratty | cop |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Ratty | amod |
| 8 | Ratty | Ratty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cry | ccomp |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- exclamation
- act
- greet
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos, act=greet
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present | Piles = pile | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | old Ratty | here | 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:16.
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): no change. 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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