The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople), sentence 21
The Water Rat confesses: «my life, I confess to you, feels to me to-day somewhat narrow and circumscribed» (circumscribed = closed in, limited).
Who acts: Water Rat, life · What happens: confess, feel, circumscribe, close · To what, where: you, Water Rat, limited · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Water Rat, life), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rat | det |
| 2 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rat | compound |
| 3 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 confesses | nsubj |
| 4 | confesses | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 confess | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 feels | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feels | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 life | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 confess | nsubj |
| 11 | confess | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 confesses | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 confess | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feels | punct |
| 15 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 confesses | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 feels | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 to | punct |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feels | obl |
| 21 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 22 narrow | advmod |
| 22 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feels | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 circumscribed | cc |
| 24 | circumscribed | circumscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 narrow | conj |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 feels | punct |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 circumscribed | punct |
| 27 | circumscribed | circumscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 circumscribed | parataxis |
| 28 | = | = | SYM | _ | 27 circumscribed | punct |
| 29 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 circumscribed | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 limited | case |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 in | punct |
| 32 | limited | limited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 circumscribed | obl |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 circumscribed | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 confesses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess | present | the Water Rat | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | confess in a quote | present | the Water Rat = rat | you | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | feel in a quote | present | my life | the Water Rat = rat | day | narrow property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to i=Experiencer | ||
| 4 | circumscribe in a quote | participle | my life not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | circumscribe | participle | limited | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:21.
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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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