The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 27
He lies in the hedge by the dusty lane, thinking of the road «and all the wondrous world that it led to», and of all the wayfarers on it, «out there, beyond — beyond!»
Who acts: Africa, world · What happens: lie, think, lead · To what, where: hedge, wondrous world · 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 (Africa, world), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lies | nsubj |
| 2 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hedge | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hedge | det |
| 5 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lies | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 lane | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lane | det |
| 8 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lane | amod |
| 9 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lies | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thinking | punct |
| 11 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 lies | advcl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thinking | obl |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 world | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 world | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 world | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 19 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 world | amod |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 road | conj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 led | obl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 led | nsubj |
| 23 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 world | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADV | _ | 25 » | advmod |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 led | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wayfarers | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 wayfarers | cc |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 wayfarers | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 wayfarers | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wayfarers | det |
| 31 | wayfarers | wayfarer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 road | conj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 wayfarers | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thinking | punct |
| 35 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 37 there | punct |
| 36 | out | out | ADV | _ | 37 there | advmod |
| 37 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 thinking | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 beyond | punct |
| 39 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 41 beyond | case |
| 40 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 beyond | punct |
| 41 | beyond | beyond | ADV | _ | 11 thinking | advmod |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 thinking | punct |
| 43 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | Africa | the hedge | by the dusty lane | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hedge=Location | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | Africa not said here | there | of the road and all wondrous world and all wayfarers on world; beyond property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | lead in a quote | past | world | all wondrous world | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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:27.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5. 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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