The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 24
Then they chatter of «violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls» (tawny = golden brown).
Who acts: lilies · What happens: chatter, haunt
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 (lilies), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 chatter | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chatter | nsubj |
| 3 | chatter | chatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 seas | case |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 seas | punct |
| 6 | violet | violet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seas | compound |
| 7 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chatter | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sands | punct |
| 9 | tawny | tawny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sands | amod |
| 10 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seas | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 walls | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 walls | cc |
| 13 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 haunted | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 lizard | punct |
| 15 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 walls | amod |
| 16 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chatter | conj |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 walls | punct |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 tawny | punct |
| 19 | tawny | tawny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chatter | appos |
| 20 | = | = | SYM | _ | 22 brown | punct |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 brown | amod |
| 22 | brown | brown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tawny | conj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 tawny | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chatter | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chatter | present | lilies = lily | then | of violet seas and tawny sands | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | haunt in a quote | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:24.
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, 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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