Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures, sentence 6

William Wordsworth wrote «I wandered lonely as a cloud»: a simile, comparing himself to a cloud with «as», drifting along all alone.

Who acts: William, I · What happens: write, wander, compare, drift along · To what, where: William · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» of the english 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 (William, I), 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	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	nsubj
2	Wordsworth	Wordsworth	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 William	flat
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 wandered	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wandered	nsubj
6	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrote	ccomp
7	lonely	lonely	ADV	_	6 wandered	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 cloud	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cloud	det
10	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wandered	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 wandered	punct
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 simile	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 simile	det
14	simile	simile	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cloud	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 comparing	punct
16	comparing	compare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 wrote	advcl
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 comparing	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 cloud	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cloud	det
20	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comparing	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 as	case
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 as	punct
23	as	as	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cloud	nmod
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 as	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drifting	punct
26	drifting	drift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 wrote	advcl
27	along	along	ADV	_	26 drifting	advmod
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 alone	advmod
29	alone	alone	ADV	_	26 drifting	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write	past	William			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wander in a quote	past	I		as a cloud; lonely property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	compare	gerund	William not said here	William	to a cloud with as	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	drift along	gerund	William not said here		alone, along property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:english:025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson:6.

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. 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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