Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old words inside «The Wind in the Willows», sentence 11

The Romans had a similar god of the woods called Faunus, and a goddess of flowers called Flora; from them come «fauna», meaning the animals of a place, and «flora», meaning its plants.

Who acts: Romans, fauna, flora · What happens: have, call, come, mean · To what, where: similar god, woods, flowers, animals, plants · 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 (Romans, fauna, flora), 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 Romans	det
2	Romans	roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 god	det
5	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 god	amod
6	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 woods	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woods	det
9	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 god	nmod
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 woods	acl
11	Faunus	Faunus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 goddess	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 goddess	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 goddess	det
15	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 god	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 flowers	case
17	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 goddess	nmod
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 flowers	acl
19	Flora	Flora	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 called	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	obl
23	come	come	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 fauna	punct
25	fauna	fauna	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	nsubj
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 fauna	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 meaning	punct
28	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 come	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 animals	det
30	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 meaning	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 place	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 place	det
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 animals	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 flora	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 flora	cc
36	«	«	PUNCT	_	37 flora	punct
37	flora	flora	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 meaning	obl
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	37 flora	punct
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 meaning	punct
40	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 flora	acl
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 plants	nmod:poss
42	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 meaning	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Romans	a similar god of the woods and a goddess of flowers		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Patient
2	call	participle		the woods not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	participle		flowers not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	infinitive	fauna		from Romans = roman	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from they=Initial_Location
5	mean	gerund	fauna not said here	the animals of a place	flora obl	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic
6	mean	gerund	flora not said here	fauna's plants		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Topic

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: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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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