The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 15

The voice «died away and ceased as an insect's tiny trumpet dwindles swiftly into silence», and the Rat saw «but a distant speck on the white surface of the road».

Who acts: voice, tiny trumpet, Rat · What happens: die away, cease, dwindle, see · To what, where: distant speck, silence

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 (voice, tiny trumpet, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 voice	det
2	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	nsubj
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 died	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ceased	cc
7	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	conj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 dwindles	mark
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 insect	det
10	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trumpet	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 insect	case
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trumpet	amod
13	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dwindles	nsubj
14	dwindles	dwindle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ceased	advcl
15	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	14 dwindles	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 silence	case
17	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dwindles	obl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 dwindles	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Rat	det
22	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	conj
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 speck	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 speck	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 speck	det
27	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 speck	amod
28	speck	speck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	obl
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 surface	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 surface	det
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 surface	amod
32	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 speck	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 road	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 road	det
35	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 surface	nmod
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 speck	punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	die away in a quote	past	the voice	a distant speck on the white surface of the road		away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	cease in a quote	past	the voice not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	dwindle in a quote	present	a insect's tiny trumpet		silence	swiftly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	see	past	the Rat				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:15.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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