The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»), sentence 28
After «plain straw... spread on the stone floor of a draughty cell», the sheets and blankets felt «very friendly and comforting things».
Who acts: sheets · What happens: feel · To what, where: friendly comforting things
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»)» 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 (sheets), 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 | _ | 4 straw | case |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 straw | punct |
| 3 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 straw | amod |
| 4 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 felt | obl |
| 5 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 4 straw | punct |
| 6 | spread | spread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 straw | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 floor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 floor | det |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 floor | compound |
| 10 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spread | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cell | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cell | det |
| 13 | draughty | draughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cell | amod |
| 14 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 floor | nmod |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 straw | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 straw | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sheets | det |
| 18 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 felt | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 blankets | cc |
| 20 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sheets | conj |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 friendly | punct |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 friendly | advmod |
| 24 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 things | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 things | cc |
| 26 | comforting | comforting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 things | amod |
| 27 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 felt | xcomp |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the sheets and blankets | friendly comforting things | after plain straw and spread | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:28.
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 ×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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