The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road), sentence 17
The Rat packs «a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes»: jokes for a very garlicky sausage, a ripe runny cheese, and wine (a grown-ups' drink) from sunny southern vineyards.
Who acts: garlic, cheese, sunshine shed · What happens: pack, sing, lie down, cry, neck, cover · To what, where: yard, sausage, Southern slopes
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 (garlic, cheese, sunshine shed), 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 packs | det |
| 2 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 packs | compound |
| 3 | packs | pack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 yard | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 yard | det |
| 6 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 packs | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bread | case |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bread | amod |
| 9 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bread | amod |
| 10 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yard | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sausage | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sausage | det |
| 13 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yard | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 sang | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sang | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 sang | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 garlic | det |
| 18 | garlic | garlic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sang | nsubj |
| 19 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sausage | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cheese | punct |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 cheese | det |
| 22 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yard | conj |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 lay | nsubj |
| 24 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 cheese | acl:relcl |
| 25 | down | down | ADV | _ | 24 lay | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 cried | cc |
| 27 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lay | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 flask | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 flask | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 flask | det |
| 31 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 necked | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 long | punct |
| 33 | necked | neck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 flask | amod |
| 34 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 covered | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 straw | punct |
| 36 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 flask | amod |
| 37 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yard | conj |
| 38 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 lay | advmod |
| 39 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 flask | acl:relcl |
| 40 | bottled | bottle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 sunshine | amod |
| 41 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 shed | compound |
| 42 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 lay | nsubj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 garnered | cc |
| 44 | garnered | garner | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 shed | conj |
| 45 | on | on | ADV | _ | 46 far | advmod |
| 46 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 48 slopes | advmod |
| 47 | Southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 slopes | amod |
| 48 | slopes | slope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 garnered | obl |
| 49 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 51 jokes | punct |
| 50 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 51 jokes | punct |
| 51 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 bottled | conj |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 56 sausage | case |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 sausage | det |
| 54 | very | very | ADV | _ | 55 garlicky | advmod |
| 55 | garlicky | garlicky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 sausage | amod |
| 56 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 jokes | nmod |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 cheese | punct |
| 58 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 61 cheese | det |
| 59 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 cheese | amod |
| 60 | runny | runny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 cheese | amod |
| 61 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 sausage | conj |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 wine | punct |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 wine | cc |
| 64 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 flask | conj |
| 65 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 71 drink | punct |
| 66 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 71 drink | det |
| 67 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 69 ups | amod |
| 68 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 69 ups | punct |
| 69 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 71 drink | compound |
| 70 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 69 ups | case |
| 71 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 wine | appos |
| 72 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 71 drink | punct |
| 73 | from | from | ADP | _ | 76 vineyards | case |
| 74 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 76 vineyards | amod |
| 75 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 76 vineyards | amod |
| 76 | vineyards | vineyard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 flask | nmod |
| 77 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 packs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack | present | a yard of long French bread and a sausage and some cheese and a necked covered flask from sunny southern vineyards and wine | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Destination | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express in a quote | past | the garlic | a sausage | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie down in a quote | past | some cheese | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | some cheese not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | neck in a quote | participle | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | cover in a quote | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | lie in a quote | past | sunshine shed | wherein property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | bottle in a quote | participle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | garner in a quote | past | sunshine shed not said here | Southern slopes | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 ×4, 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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