The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople), sentence 23
The domestic storm-cone was hoisted», so he shipped on a small trading vessel bound from Constantinople — a storm-cone is a signal hung up in harbours to warn of a storm, so this is a joke meaning there were quarrels at home.
Who acts: voyage, storm cone, this, joke, quarrels · What happens: hoist, ship, bind, be, hang up, warn · To what, where: domestic storm cone, small trading vessel, Constantinople, signal, harbours, joke · 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 (voyage, storm cone, this, joke), 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 | 5 cone | det |
| 2 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cone | amod |
| 3 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cone | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 storm | punct |
| 5 | cone | cone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hoisted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hoisted | aux:pass |
| 7 | hoisted | hoist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 hoisted | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shipped | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 shipped | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shipped | nsubj |
| 12 | shipped | ship | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hoisted | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 vessel | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 vessel | det |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 vessel | amod |
| 16 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vessel | compound |
| 17 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shipped | obl |
| 18 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 vessel | acl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Constantinople | case |
| 20 | Constantinople | Constantinople | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bound | obl |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 shipped | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cone | det |
| 23 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cone | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 storm | punct |
| 25 | cone | cone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 signal | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 signal | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 signal | det |
| 28 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shipped | parataxis |
| 29 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 signal | acl |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 hung | compound:prt |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 harbours | case |
| 32 | harbours | harbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hung | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 warn | mark |
| 34 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 hung | advcl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 storm | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 storm | det |
| 37 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 warn | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 joke | punct |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 joke | advmod |
| 40 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 joke | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 joke | cop |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 joke | det |
| 43 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 signal | conj |
| 44 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 joke | acl |
| 45 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 46 were | expl |
| 46 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 meaning | ccomp |
| 47 | quarrels | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 were | nsubj |
| 48 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 home | case |
| 49 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 were | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hoisted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hoist | past · passive | the domestic storm cone | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ship in a quote | past | voyage | a small trading vessel | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bind in a quote | participle | a small trading vessel not said here | Constantinople | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | a storm cone | a signal and a joke | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hang up in a quote | participle | a signal and a joke not said here | harbours | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in harbour=Location | ||||
| 6 | warn speech: warn in a quote | to-infinitive | of a storm | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent of storm=Topic | |||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | this | a joke | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | mean in a quote | gerund | a joke not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | be in a quote | past | quarrels | home; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
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:23.
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 ×1, 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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