The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road), sentence 7
Next he took «a ship that was trading to Sardinia and Corsica», glad «to feel the fresh breeze and the sea-spray in my face once more».
Who acts: Rat, ship · What happens: take, trade, feel · To what, where: ship, Sardinia, fresh breeze, face
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, ship), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 ship | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 trading | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 trading | aux |
| 9 | trading | trade | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 ship | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Sardinia | case |
| 11 | Sardinia | Sardinia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 trading | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Corsica | cc |
| 13 | Corsica | Corsica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sardinia | conj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glad | punct |
| 16 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | advcl |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 feel | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 feel | mark |
| 19 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 glad | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 breeze | det |
| 21 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 breeze | amod |
| 22 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 feel | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 spray | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 spray | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spray | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 sea | punct |
| 27 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 breeze | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 face | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 face | nmod:poss |
| 30 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 feel | obl |
| 31 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 32 more | advmod |
| 32 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 feel | advmod |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 feel | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Rat | a ship | next property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | |||
| 2 | trade in a quote | past · progressive | a ship | Sardinia and Corsica | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | feel in a quote | to-infinitive | Rat not said here | the fresh breeze and the sea spray | my face | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent breeze=Theme in face=Location |
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:7.
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): 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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