The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 2
As the swallows chatter about the South, something new wakes up in the Rat: a longing to go too.
Who acts: swallows, something · What happens: chatter, wake up, go · To what, where: Rat
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 (swallows, something), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 chatter | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 swallows | det |
| 3 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 chatter | nsubj |
| 4 | chatter | chatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wakes | advcl |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 South | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 South | det |
| 7 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 chatter | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 something | punct |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 wakes | nsubj |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 something | amod |
| 11 | wakes | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 wakes | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Rat | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Rat | det |
| 15 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wakes | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 longing | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 longing | det |
| 18 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 something | appos |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 longing | acl |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wakes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chatter | present | the swallows | about the South | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about south=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wake up | present | something | the Rat | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:2.
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, 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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