The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 17

That swallow flew off one stormy night; «It was snowing hard as I beat through the passes of the great mountains», and then she felt «the hot sun again on my back» and tasted «my first fat insect!» — «never again did I think of disobedience».

Who acts: swallow, It, Rat · What happens: fly off, snow, beat, feel, taste, think · To what, where: passes, hot sun, back, first fat insect, great mountains · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (swallow, It, Rat), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 swallow	det
2	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 flew	compound:prt
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 night	nummod
6	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 snowing	punct
10	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 snowing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 snowing	aux
12	snowing	snow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 flew	parataxis
13	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 snowing	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 beat	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 beat	nsubj
16	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 snowing	advcl
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 passes	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 passes	det
19	passes	pass	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 beat	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 mountains	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mountains	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mountains	amod
23	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 passes	nmod
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 snowing	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 felt	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 felt	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 felt	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 felt	nsubj
29	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 beat	conj
30	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 sun	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sun	det
32	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sun	amod
33	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 felt	obj
34	again	again	ADV	_	33 sun	advmod
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 back	case
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 back	nmod:poss
37	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sun	nmod
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 sun	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 tasted	cc
40	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 felt	conj
41	«	«	PUNCT	_	45 insect	punct
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 insect	nmod:poss
43	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	45 insect	amod
44	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 insect	amod
45	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tasted	obj
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct
47	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct
48	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct
49	«	«	PUNCT	_	54 think	punct
50	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	51 again	advmod
51	again	again	ADV	_	54 think	advmod
52	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 think	aux
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 think	nsubj
54	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 flew	conj
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 disobedience	case
56	disobedience	disobedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 think	obl
57	»	»	PUNCT	_	54 think	punct
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	that swallow			night		tree rules
2	snow in a quote	past · progressive	It				hard property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	beat in a quote	present	the Rat = rat		the passes of the great mountains			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through pass=Location
4	feel	past	swallow	the hot sun	my back	then		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sun=Theme on back=Location
5	taste	past	swallow not said here	my first fat insect				vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme insect=Attribute
6	think speech: other in a quote	past · do-support	the Rat = rat			again	of disobedience	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	pass in a quote			the great mountains				nom pass «act transitive»: of=patient

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:17.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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