The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 21
«The call of lush meadow-grass, wet orchards, warm, insect-haunted ponds ... the House of the perfect Eaves» (eaves = the edge of a roof, where swallows nest), «the cuckoo's note», and «quiet water-lilies swaying on the surface of an English stream».
Who acts: swallows, quiet water lilies, cuckoo · What happens: haunt, nest, sway, call, note · To what, where: surface, lush meadow grass · 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 (swallows, quiet water lilies, cuckoo), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 call | det |
| 3 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 grass | case |
| 5 | lush | lush | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grass | amod |
| 6 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grass | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 meadow | punct |
| 8 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 orchards | punct |
| 10 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 orchards | amod |
| 11 | orchards | orchard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grass | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 warm | punct |
| 13 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ponds | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ponds | punct |
| 15 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 haunted | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 insect | punct |
| 17 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 ponds | amod |
| 18 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grass | conj |
| 19 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 21 House | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 House | det |
| 21 | House | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Eaves | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Eaves | det |
| 24 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Eaves | amod |
| 25 | Eaves | eave | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 House | nmod |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 Eaves | punct |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 eaves | punct |
| 28 | eaves | eave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 Eaves | conj |
| 29 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 edge | det |
| 31 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | parataxis |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 roof | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 roof | det |
| 34 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 edge | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 nest | punct |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 nest | advmod |
| 37 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 nest | nsubj |
| 38 | nest | nest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 roof | acl:relcl |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 nest | punct |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 note | punct |
| 41 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 45 note | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 cuckoo | det |
| 43 | cuckoo | cuckoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 note | nmod:poss |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 cuckoo | case |
| 45 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | appos |
| 46 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 45 note | punct |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 lilies | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 lilies | cc |
| 49 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 53 lilies | punct |
| 50 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 lilies | amod |
| 51 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 lilies | compound |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 water | punct |
| 53 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 note | conj |
| 54 | swaying | sway | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 53 lilies | acl |
| 55 | on | on | ADP | _ | 57 surface | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 surface | det |
| 57 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 swaying | obl |
| 58 | of | of | ADP | _ | 61 stream | case |
| 59 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 61 stream | det |
| 60 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 stream | amod |
| 61 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 surface | nmod |
| 62 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 57 surface | punct |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haunt in a quote | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | nest | present | swallows | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sway in a quote | gerund | quiet water lilies not said here | the surface of a English stream | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Location | ||||
| 4 | call in a quote | lush meadow grass and wet orchards and warm haunted ponds | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | note in a quote | the cuckoo | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:21.
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 ×3, R8-pos-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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