The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book), sentence 11
The Rat heard the piper at dawn and the call of the South, and came back to his river.
Who acts: Rat · What happens: hear, come back, call · To what, where: piper, river, South · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» 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), 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 | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 piper | det |
| 5 | piper | piper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 dawn | case |
| 7 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 call | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 call | det |
| 10 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piper | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 South | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 South | det |
| 13 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 call | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 river | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 river | nmod:poss |
| 20 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Rat | the piper and the call of the South | dawn | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer piper=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come back | past | the Rat not said here | Rat's river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | call | the South | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:11.
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): no change. 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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