The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 8
The Rat heard of «deep-sea fishings», «the tall bows of the great liner taking shape overhead through the fog», and «the merry home-coming» to «red-curtained windows».
Who acts: Rat, tall bows · What happens: heard, take, curtain · To what, where: shape, fog
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 (Rat, tall bows), 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 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | heard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fishings | case |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 fishings | punct |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sea | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 deep | punct |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fishings | compound |
| 9 | fishings | fishing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obl |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 fishings | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bows | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 bows | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bows | det |
| 14 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bows | amod |
| 15 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fishings | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 liner | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 liner | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 liner | amod |
| 19 | liner | liner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bows | nmod |
| 20 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 bows | acl |
| 21 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taking | obj |
| 22 | overhead | overhead | ADV | _ | 20 taking | advmod |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 fog | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fog | det |
| 25 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taking | obl |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 bows | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 coming | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 coming | cc |
| 29 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 coming | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 coming | det |
| 31 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 coming | amod |
| 32 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 coming | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 home | punct |
| 34 | coming | coming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fishings | conj |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 34 coming | punct |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 windows | case |
| 37 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 41 windows | punct |
| 38 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 curtained | amod |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 red | punct |
| 40 | curtained | curtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 windows | amod |
| 41 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obl |
| 42 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 41 windows | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heard | past | the Rat | of sea fishings and the tall bows of the great liner and the merry home coming; to curtained windows | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | gerund | the tall bows of the great liner not said here | shape | the fog | overhead property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | ||
| 3 | curtain in a quote | participle | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: 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:8.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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