The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 8
I call it simply ridiculous.» The first swallow: «we're not off yet ...
Who acts: I, we · What happens: call, not be · To what, where: slope, first swallow · 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 (I, we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 call | nsubj |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 call | obj |
| 4 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 5 ridiculous | advmod |
| 5 | ridiculous | ridiculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 call | xcomp |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 swallow | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 swallow | amod |
| 10 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 call | parataxis |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 « | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 swallow | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 off | nsubj |
| 14 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 off | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 off | advmod |
| 16 | off | off | ADV | _ | 10 swallow | acl:relcl |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 16 off | advmod |
| 18 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | I | slope | ridiculous property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is | present | we | the first swallow not said here | yet | off property | 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:8.
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 ×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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