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

Over lunch the Sea Rat tells the rest: the ports of Portugal and France, the harbours of Cornwall and Devon, and the last stormy quay where the first hints of spring sent him inland to try a quiet farm — which the Water Rat doesn't want to hear about at all.

Who acts: Sea Rat, first hints, Water Rat, spring · What happens: tell, send, try, not want, hear, hint · To what, where: rest, lunch, Rat, quiet farm, all · 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 (Sea Rat, first hints, Water Rat, spring), 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	Over	over	ADP	_	2 lunch	case
2	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Rat	det
4	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Rat	compound
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tells	nsubj
6	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rest	det
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 ports	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ports	det
11	ports	port	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rest	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Portugal	case
13	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 ports	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 France	cc
15	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Portugal	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 harbours	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 harbours	det
18	harbours	harbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ports	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Cornwall	case
20	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 harbours	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Devon	cc
22	Devon	Devon	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Cornwall	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 quay	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 quay	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 quay	det
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 quay	amod
27	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 quay	amod
28	quay	quay	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	obl
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 sent	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hints	det
31	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 hints	amod
32	hints	hint	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 sent	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 spring	case
34	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hints	nmod
35	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 quay	acl:relcl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sent	obj
37	inland	inland	ADV	_	35 sent	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 try	mark
39	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 sent	advcl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 farm	det
41	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 farm	amod
42	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 try	obj
43	—	-	PUNCT	_	50 want	punct
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 hear	obl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Rat	det
46	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Rat	compound
47	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 want	nsubj
48	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 want	aux
49	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 want	advmod
50	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 farm	acl:relcl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 hear	mark
52	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 want	xcomp
53	about	about	ADP	_	44 which	case
54	at	at	ADP	_	55 all	case
55	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 hear	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the Sea Rat	the rest the ports of Portugal and France and the harbours of Cornwall and Devon	lunch	the last stormy quay obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Recipient
2	send	past	the first hints of spring	Rat		inland property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	try	to-infinitive	the first hints of spring not said here	a quiet farm			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Eventuality
4	not want	present · do-support	the Water Rat				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Water Rat not said here		all		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about which=Stimulus
6	hint		spring				nom hint «communication intransitive»: of=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:059-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road.lesson:4.

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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