The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 5

Restless, the Rat climbs a slope and stares at the line of hills to the south, which used to be the edge of his world; now he dreams of seas, sunny coasts and ships beyond them, and lies by the dusty lane thinking of all the travellers who have walked it.

Who acts: Rat, line, cold, travellers · What happens: climb, stare, use, be, dream, lie · To what, where: slope, edge

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 (Rat, line, cold, travellers), 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	Restless	Restless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 climbs	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Restless	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 climbs	nsubj
5	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 slope	det
7	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbs	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stares	cc
9	stares	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 climbs	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 line	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 line	det
12	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stares	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 hills	case
14	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 line	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 south	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 south	det
17	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stares	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 used	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 used	nsubj
20	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 line	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	24 edge	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 edge	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 edge	det
24	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 used	xcomp
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 world	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 world	nmod:poss
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 edge	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 dreams	punct
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 dreams	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dreams	nsubj
31	dreams	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 climbs	parataxis
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 seas	case
33	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 dreams	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 coasts	punct
35	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 coasts	amod
36	coasts	coast	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 seas	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 ships	cc
38	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 dreams	conj
39	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 ships	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 lies	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 lies	cc
43	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 dreams	conj
44	by	by	ADP	_	47 lane	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 lane	det
46	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 lane	amod
47	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lies	obl
48	thinking	thinking	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 lies	advcl
49	of	of	ADP	_	52 travellers	case
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 travellers	det:predet
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 travellers	det
52	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 thinking	obl
53	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 walked	nsubj
54	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 walked	aux
55	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 travellers	acl:relcl
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 walked	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 climbs	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	climb	present	the Rat	a slope			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location slope=Theme
2	stare	present	the Rat not said here			to the south; at the line of hills	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at line=Theme
3	use	past	the line of hills				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	to-infinitive	the line of hills not said here	the edge		of cold's world	tree rules
5	dream	present	cold		now	of seas and sunny coasts	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
6	lie	present	cold not said here			by the dusty lane	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by lane=Location
7	thinking	gerund	cold not said here			of all travellers	tree rules
8	walk	present · perfect	all travellers	slope			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory

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:5.

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 ×4, 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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