The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople), sentence 9

He reads the countryside with his nose and ears: «That was clover»; cows «cropping the grass»; «distant reapers»; cottage smoke; and «the call of a moorhen» tells him the river is near.

Who acts: Rat, That, cows, river · What happens: read, be, crop, tell, call · To what, where: countryside, clover, grass, call, Rat, moorhen · 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 (Rat, That, cows, river), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 countryside	det
4	countryside	countryside	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 nose	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nose	nmod:poss
7	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ears	cc
9	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 nose	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 clover	punct
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 clover	punct
12	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 clover	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 clover	cop
14	clover	clover	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	parataxis
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 clover	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 cows	punct
17	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 clover	parataxis
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 cropping	punct
19	cropping	crop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 cows	acl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 grass	det
21	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cropping	obj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 reapers	punct
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 reapers	punct
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 reapers	punct
25	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 reapers	amod
26	reapers	reaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 grass	appos
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 reapers	punct
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 smoke	punct
29	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 smoke	compound
30	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grass	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 tells	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 tells	cc
33	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 call	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 call	det
35	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tells	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 moorhen	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 moorhen	det
38	moorhen	moorhen	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 call	nmod
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	35 call	punct
40	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reads	conj
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 tells	obj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 river	det
43	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 near	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 near	cop
45	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 tells	ccomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reads	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	read	present	Rat	the countryside		with Rat's nose and ears	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past	That	clover			tree rules
3	crop in a quote	gerund	cows not said here	the grass and cottage smoke			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	present	Rat not said here	the call of a moorhen	Rat		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	is	present	the river			near property	tree rules
6	call in a quote			a moorhen			nom call «communication transitive»: of=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:9.

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 ×3. 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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