The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 14
«I will linger, and look back; and at last I will surely see you coming, eager and light-hearted, with all the South in your face!»
Who acts: tactful Mole, you · What happens: linger, look back, see, come · To what, where: last
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 (tactful Mole, you), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 linger | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 linger | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 linger | aux |
| 4 | linger | linger | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 look | cc |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 linger | conj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 look | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 see | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 15 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 16 see | advmod |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 linger | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 coming | nsubj |
| 18 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 see | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eager | punct |
| 20 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 coming | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hearted | cc |
| 22 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hearted | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 hearted | punct |
| 24 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eager | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 face | punct |
| 26 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 32 face | mark |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 face | nsubj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 South | det |
| 29 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 all | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 face | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 face | nmod:poss |
| 32 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hearted | advcl |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 linger | punct |
| 34 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 linger | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | linger in a quote | future | the tactful Mole = mole | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look back in a quote | infinitive | the tactful Mole = mole not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | future | the tactful Mole = mole | last | surely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | come in a quote | gerund | you | eager property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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.
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:14.
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 ×1, 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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