The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road), sentence 12

From Corsica a ship carried wine to the mainland; at Alassio (a little town on the Italian coast) they «hove» (threw) the wine-casks overboard, «tied one to the other by a long line», and the crew rowed ashore singing, pulling «the long bobbing procession of casks, like a mile of porpoises».

Who acts: ship, accounts, crew, casks · What happens: carry, heave, throw, tie, row, sing · To what, where: wine, Corsica, wine casks, one, long bobbing procession · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road)» 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 (ship, accounts, crew, casks), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 Corsica	case
2	Corsica	Corsica	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ship	det
4	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	nsubj
5	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mainland	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mainland	det
9	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 Alassio	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 Alassio	case
12	Alassio	Alassio	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 town	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 town	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 town	amod
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Alassio	appos
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 coast	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 coast	det
19	Italian	Italian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 coast	amod
20	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 town	nmod
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 town	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hove	nsubj
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 hove	punct
24	hove	heave	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carried	parataxis
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 hove	punct
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 threw	punct
27	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hove	parataxis
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 threw	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 casks	det
30	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 casks	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 wine	punct
32	casks	cask	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hove	obj
33	overboard	overboard	ADV	_	24 hove	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 tied	punct
35	«	«	PUNCT	_	36 tied	punct
36	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hove	conj
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 tied	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 other	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 other	det
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 one	parataxis
41	by	by	ADP	_	44 line	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 line	det
43	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 line	amod
44	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tied	obl
45	»	»	PUNCT	_	36 tied	punct
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 rowed	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 rowed	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 crew	det
49	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 rowed	nsubj
50	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hove	conj
51	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	50 rowed	advmod
52	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 rowed	advcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 pulling	punct
54	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 rowed	advcl
55	«	«	PUNCT	_	59 procession	punct
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 procession	det
57	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 procession	amod
58	bobbing	bob	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	59 procession	amod
59	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 pulling	obj
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 casks	case
61	casks	cask	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 procession	nmod
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 mile	punct
63	like	like	ADP	_	65 mile	case
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 mile	det
65	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 procession	nmod
66	of	of	ADP	_	67 porpoises	case
67	porpoises	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 mile	nmod
68	»	»	PUNCT	_	59 procession	punct
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 carried	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	a ship	wine	Corsica	to the mainland; at Alassio	tree rules
2	heave in a quote	past	accounts = account	the wine casks		overboard property	tree rules
3	throw	past					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	tie in a quote	past	accounts = account not said here	one		by a long line	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	row	past	the crew			ashore property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	sing speech: express	gerund	the crew not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	pull	gerund	the crew not said here	the long bobbing procession of casks		like a mile of porpoises	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent procession=Theme
8	bob in a quote	gerund					vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	proceed in a quote		casks			like a mile of porpoises	nom procession «event intransitive»: of=agent like=obl

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.

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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. 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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