The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 3
When he opens his eyes, his own river looks grey and chilly, and his loyal heart scolds him for being a traitor.
Who acts: cold, own river, loyal heart · What happens: open, look, scold, be · To what, where: eyes, cold, traitor
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 (cold, own river, loyal heart), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 opens | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opens | nsubj |
| 3 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 opens | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looks | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 river | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 river | amod |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looks | nsubj |
| 10 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 opens | conj |
| 11 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 looks | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 chilly | cc |
| 13 | chilly | chilly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grey | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 scolds | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looks | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 heart | amod |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 scolds | nsubj |
| 19 | scolds | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 looks | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 scolds | obj |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 traitor | mark |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 traitor | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 traitor | det |
| 24 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 scolds | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | cold | cold's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | present | cold's own river | grey property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | scold | present | cold's loyal heart | cold | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | gerund | cold's loyal heart not said here | a traitor | tree rules |
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:3.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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