The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road), sentence 2
At Alassio he watched wine-casks tied in a long line pulled ashore «like a mile of porpoises»; he rested in the olive-woods above the blue sea, and at Marseilles he feasted with old shipmates and still dreams of its shellfish.
Who acts: Rat · What happens: watch, tie, pull, rest, feast, dream · To what, where: wine casks, Alassio, long line, olive woods, Marseilles, shellfish
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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 Alassio | case |
| 2 | Alassio | Alassio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 watched | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 watched | nsubj |
| 4 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 casks | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 wine | punct |
| 7 | casks | cask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 watched | obj |
| 8 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 casks | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 line | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 line | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 line | amod |
| 12 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tied | obl |
| 13 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 line | acl |
| 14 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 13 pulled | advmod |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 mile | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 mile | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mile | det |
| 18 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ashore | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 porpoises | case |
| 20 | porpoises | porpoise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 mile | nmod |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 mile | punct |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 rested | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 rested | nsubj |
| 24 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 watched | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 woods | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 woods | det |
| 27 | olive | olive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 woods | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 olive | punct |
| 29 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 rested | obl |
| 30 | above | above | ADP | _ | 33 sea | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sea | det |
| 32 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 sea | amod |
| 33 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rested | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 feasted | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 feasted | cc |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 Marseilles | case |
| 37 | Marseilles | Marseilles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 feasted | obl |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 feasted | nsubj |
| 39 | feasted | feast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 watched | conj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 shipmates | case |
| 41 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 shipmates | amod |
| 42 | shipmates | shipmate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 feasted | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 dreams | cc |
| 44 | still | still | ADV | _ | 45 dreams | advmod |
| 45 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 feasted | conj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 shellfish | case |
| 47 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 shellfish | nmod:poss |
| 48 | shellfish | shellfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 dreams | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Rat | wine casks | Alassio | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cask=Theme | |||
| 2 | tie | participle | wine casks not said here | a long line | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pull | participle | a long line not said here | ashore property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rest | past | Rat | the olive woods | above the blue sea | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in wood=Location | |||
| 5 | feast | past | Rat | Marseilles | with old shipmates | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | dream | sea's shellfish | nom dream «cognition 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:059-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road.lesson:2.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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