Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old words inside «The Wind in the Willows», sentence 10
The Greeks said the sudden, wild fear people felt in lonely places was sent by Pan, so it was called «panic»; the book says carefully that the Mole felt awe, not panic.
Who acts: Greeks, people, Pan, book, Mole · What happens: say, feel, send, call · To what, where: sudden wild fear, lonely places, fear, awe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old words inside «The Wind in the Willows»» of the language 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 (Greeks, people, Pan, book), 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 Greeks | det |
| 2 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fear | det |
| 5 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fear | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sudden | punct |
| 7 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fear | amod |
| 8 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fear | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 places | case |
| 12 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 places | amod |
| 13 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 felt | obl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sent | aux:pass |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | ccomp |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Pan | case |
| 17 | Pan | Pan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 called | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 called | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 called | aux:pass |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sent | conj |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 panic | punct |
| 24 | panic | panic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 panic | punct |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 says | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 book | det |
| 28 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 says | nsubj |
| 29 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 30 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 29 says | advmod |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 felt | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Mole | det |
| 33 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 felt | nsubj |
| 34 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 says | ccomp |
| 35 | awe | awe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 felt | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 panic | punct |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 panic | advmod |
| 38 | panic | panic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 awe | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Greeks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | people | the sudden wild fear not said here | lonely places | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fear=Theme in place=Location | |||
| 3 | send | past · passive | Pan | the sudden wild fear | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | past · passive | fear | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | the book | carefully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | feel | past | the Mole | awe and panic | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent awe=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:language:043-pan-panic-and-ulysses-the-old-myths-and-old-words-inside-the-wind-in-the-willows.lesson:10.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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