The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 0

After lunch the Sea Rat leans close, his sea-grey eyes and the red glow of his glass holding the Water Rat «body and soul»; his talk seems to turn into sailors' songs, wind, gulls and waves, until the Rat can hear and see nothing else.

Who acts: Sea Rat, red glow, talk, Rat, glass, sailors · What happens: lean, hold, seem, turn, hear, see · To what, where: Water Rat, songs, nothing

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure)» 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, red glow, talk, 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 lunch	case
2	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leans	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 leans	nsubj
6	leans	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leans	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eyes	punct
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eyes	nmod:poss
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grey	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 sea	punct
12	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eyes	amod
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leans	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 glow	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 glow	det
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 glow	amod
17	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eyes	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 glass	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 glass	nmod:poss
20	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 glow	nmod
21	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 glow	acl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Rat	det
23	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Rat	compound
24	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 holding	obj
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 body	punct
26	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 glow	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 soul	cc
28	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 body	conj
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 body	punct
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 seems	punct
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 talk	nmod:poss
32	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seems	nsubj
33	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 leans	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	35 turn	mark
35	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 seems	xcomp
36	into	into	ADP	_	39 songs	case
37	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 songs	nmod:poss
38	'	's	PART	_	37 sailors	case
39	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 turn	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 wind	punct
41	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 songs	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 gulls	punct
43	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 songs	conj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 waves	cc
45	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 songs	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 hear	punct
47	until	until	SCONJ	_	51 hear	mark
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Rat	det
49	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 hear	nsubj
50	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 hear	aux
51	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 leans	advcl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 see	cc
53	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 hear	conj
54	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	53 see	obj
55	else	else	ADV	_	54 nothing	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 leans	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	present	the Sea Rat			after lunch	close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hold	gerund	the red glow of Rat's glass and body and soul not said here	the Water Rat				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme
3	seem	present	Rat's talk					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	turn	to-infinitive	Rat's talk not said here		sailors's songs and wind and gulls and waves			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into song=Trajectory
5	hear	can	the Rat					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	see	infinitive	the Rat not said here	nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
7	glow		Rat's glass					nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent
8	talk		Rat					nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
9	sing		sailors					nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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:060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.lesson:0.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-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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