The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 20

The Mole talked «casually» of the harvest, «the reddening apples», «the browning nuts», «jams and preserves and the distilling of cordials» (sweet fruit drinks), and then of midwinter, «and then he became simply lyrical» (spoke like a poem).

Who acts: Mole · What happens: talk, redden, brown, become, speak · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mole), 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 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	nsubj
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 »	punct
5	casually	casually	ADV	_	3 talked	advmod
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 casually	punct
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 harvest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 harvest	det
9	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 apples	punct
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 apples	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 apples	det
13	reddening	redden	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 apples	amod
14	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 harvest	nmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 apples	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 nuts	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 nuts	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 nuts	det
19	browning	brown	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 nuts	amod
20	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 apples	conj
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 nuts	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 jams	punct
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 jams	punct
24	jams	jam	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 harvest	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 preserves	cc
26	preserves	preserve	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 jams	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 distilling	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 distilling	det
29	distilling	distilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 jams	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 cordials	case
31	cordials	cordial	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 distilling	nmod
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	29 distilling	punct
33	(	(	PUNCT	_	36 drinks	punct
34	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 drinks	amod
35	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 drinks	compound
36	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 distilling	conj
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	36 drinks	punct
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 midwinter	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 midwinter	cc
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 midwinter	advmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 midwinter	case
42	midwinter	midwinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 distilling	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 «	punct
44	«	«	PUNCT	_	48 became	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 became	cc
46	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 became	advmod
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 became	nsubj
48	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talked	conj
49	simply	simply	ADV	_	50 lyrical	advmod
50	lyrical	lyrical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 became	xcomp
51	»	»	PUNCT	_	48 became	punct
52	(	(	PUNCT	_	53 spoke	punct
53	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 lyrical	parataxis
54	like	like	ADP	_	56 poem	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 poem	det
56	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 spoke	obl
57	)	)	PUNCT	_	53 spoke	punct
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the Mole		of the harvest the reddening apples and the browning nuts and jams and preserves and the distilling of cordials and sweet fruit drinks and midwinter; casually property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	redden in a quote	gerund				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	brown in a quote	gerund				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	become in a quote	past	Mole	then	lyrical property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	speak speech: other	past			like a poem	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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:20.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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