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 18
«Then he heaved a deep sigh; a long, long, long sigh.»
Who acts: Hero · What happens: heave · To what, where: deep sigh
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 (Hero), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 heaved | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 heaved | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heaved | nsubj |
| 4 | heaved | heave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sigh | det |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sigh | amod |
| 7 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heaved | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sigh | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sigh | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sigh | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 long | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 long | punct |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sigh | amod |
| 15 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sigh | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heaved | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 heaved | 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 | heave in a quote | past | Hero | a deep sigh | then | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme |
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:18.
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 ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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