The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople), sentence 6
So the Sea Rat tells of his last trip: family troubles, then the Greek islands, warm nights under the stars, up the Adriatic and into Venice «down a path of gold», with music on the Grand Canal and gondolas packed side by side.
Who acts: Sea Rat, gondolas, Rat · What happens: tell, pack, trip · To what, where: side · 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 (Sea Rat, gondolas, Rat), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 tells | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rat | det |
| 3 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rat | compound |
| 4 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tells | nsubj |
| 5 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 trip | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 trip | nmod:poss |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trip | amod |
| 9 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tells | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 troubles | punct |
| 11 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 troubles | compound |
| 12 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 trip | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 islands | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 islands | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 islands | det |
| 16 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 islands | amod |
| 17 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 troubles | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 nights | punct |
| 19 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 nights | amod |
| 20 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 troubles | conj |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 stars | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stars | det |
| 23 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 nights | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Adriatic | punct |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 Adriatic | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Adriatic | det |
| 27 | Adriatic | Adriatic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 troubles | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Venice | cc |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 Venice | case |
| 30 | Venice | Venice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Adriatic | conj |
| 31 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 path | punct |
| 32 | down | down | ADP | _ | 34 path | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 path | det |
| 34 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Adriatic | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 gold | case |
| 36 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 path | nmod |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 34 path | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 music | punct |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 music | case |
| 40 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 path | conj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 Canal | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Canal | det |
| 43 | Grand | Grand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Canal | flat |
| 44 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 music | nmod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 gondolas | cc |
| 46 | gondolas | gondola | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 path | conj |
| 47 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 gondolas | acl |
| 48 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 packed | obl |
| 49 | by | by | ADP | _ | 50 side | case |
| 50 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 gondolas | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | the Sea Rat | of Rat's last trip | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pack | participle | gondolas by side not said here | side | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trip | Rat | nom trip «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:6.
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 ×3, R7-rel-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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