The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 13

The third swallow tried «stopping on» one year: «O the weary length of the nights!

Who acts: third swallow · What happens: try, stop on

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 (third swallow), 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	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 swallow	amod
3	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 stopping	punct
6	stopping	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 tried	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 stopping	compound:prt
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 stopping	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 year	nummod
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopping	obl:unmarked
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 length	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 length	punct
13	O	of	INTJ	_	16 length	discourse
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 length	det
15	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 length	amod
16	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tried	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 nights	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 nights	det
19	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 length	nmod
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	the third swallow						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	stop on not said to happen, in a quote	gerund	the third swallow not said here				year		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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: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 ×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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