The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 11

The second swallow: «First, we feel it stirring within us, a sweet unrest; then back come the recollections one by one, like homing pigeons.»

Who acts: we, fun · What happens: feel, stir, come · To what, where: sweet unrest, recollections

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South)» 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 (we, fun), 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	3 swallow	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 swallow	amod
3	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 swallow	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 swallow	punct
6	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 feel	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 First	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 feel	nsubj
9	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swallow	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stirring	nsubj
11	stirring	stir	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 feel	xcomp
12	within	within	ADP	_	13 us	case
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 stirring	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 unrest	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 unrest	det
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 unrest	amod
17	unrest	unrest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stirring	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 come	advmod
20	back	back	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 swallow	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 recollections	det
23	recollections	recollection	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	obj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 come	advcl
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 one	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 one	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pigeons	punct
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 pigeons	case
29	homing	homing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pigeons	amod
30	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swallow	punct
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 swallow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel in a quote	present	we			first property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	stir in a quote	gerund	fun	a sweet unrest		within us	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
3	come in a quote	infinitive		the recollections	then	like homing pigeons	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location recollection=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:057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.lesson:11.

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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