Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old words inside «The Wind in the Willows», sentence 17
«Echo» comes from a nymph called Echo who could only repeat the last words others said; «cereal» comes from Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain; January is named after Janus, the Roman god of doorways with two faces.
Who acts: Echo, nymph, others, cereal · What happens: come, call, repeat, say, name · To what, where: nymph, last words, Ceres, January · 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 (Echo, nymph, others, cereal), 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 | _ | 2 Echo | punct |
| 2 | Echo | echo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Echo | punct |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 nymph | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 nymph | det |
| 7 | nymph | nymph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obl |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 nymph | acl |
| 9 | Echo | echo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 repeat | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 repeat | aux |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 repeat | advmod |
| 13 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 nymph | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 words | det |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 words | amod |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 repeat | obj |
| 17 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 words | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 comes | punct |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 cereal | punct |
| 21 | cereal | cereal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 comes | nsubj |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 cereal | punct |
| 23 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 comes | parataxis |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Ceres | case |
| 25 | Ceres | Ceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 comes | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 goddess | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 goddess | det |
| 28 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 goddess | amod |
| 29 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Ceres | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 grain | case |
| 31 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 goddess | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 named | punct |
| 33 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 named | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 named | aux:pass |
| 35 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 comes | conj |
| 36 | after | after | ADP | _ | 37 Janus | case |
| 37 | Janus | Janus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 named | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 god | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 god | det |
| 40 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 god | amod |
| 41 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Janus | appos |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 doorways | case |
| 43 | doorways | doorway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 god | nmod |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 faces | case |
| 45 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 faces | nummod |
| 46 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 god | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Echo | from a nymph | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from nymph=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a nymph not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | repeat | could | a nymph | the last words | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | others | the last words not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come | present | cereal | Ceres | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ceres=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | name | present · passive | January | after Janus | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:17.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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