The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople), sentence 13
Upalong in that direction» (upalong = up that way, in country talk), and now is «tramping southward, following the old call, back to the old life».
Who acts: direction · What happens: upalong up, be, follow · To what, where: way, tramping southward
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople)» 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 (direction), 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 | Upalong | upalong | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 direction | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 direction | det |
| 4 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Upalong | obl |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 upalong | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 upalong | punct |
| 7 | upalong | upalong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 direction | acl:relcl |
| 8 | = | = | SYM | _ | 9 up | punct |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 upalong | compound:prt |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 upalong | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 talk | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 talk | case |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 talk | compound |
| 15 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 upalong | parataxis |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 talk | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 southward | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 southward | cc |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | _ | 23 southward | advmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 southward | cop |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 tramping | punct |
| 22 | tramping | tramping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 southward | compound |
| 23 | southward | southward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 direction | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 call | punct |
| 25 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 call | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 call | det |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 call | amod |
| 28 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 southward | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 back | punct |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 southward | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 life | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 life | det |
| 33 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 life | amod |
| 34 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 back | obl |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 direction | appos |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Upalong | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | upalong up in a quote | infinitive | that direction and tramping southward and the old call not said here | that way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | tramping southward and the old call | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.lesson:13.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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