Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old words inside «The Wind in the Willows», sentence 9

In pan-pipes the shorter pipes play higher notes and the longer pipes play lower notes, because a shorter column of air vibrates faster.

Who acts: shorter pipes, longer pipes, shorter column · What happens: play, vibrate · To what, where: higher notes, pan pipes, lower notes

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 (shorter pipes, longer pipes, shorter column), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 pipes	case
2	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pipes	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 pipes	punct
4	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 play	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pipes	det
6	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 pipes	amod
7	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 play	nsubj
8	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 notes	amod
10	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 play	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 play	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pipes	det
13	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 pipes	amod
14	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 play	nsubj
15	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 play	conj
16	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 notes	amod
17	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 play	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 vibrates	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 vibrates	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 column	det
21	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 column	amod
22	column	column	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 vibrates	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 air	case
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 column	nmod
25	vibrates	vibrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 play	advcl
26	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 vibrates	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 play	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	present	the shorter pipes	higher notes	pan pipes		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme
2	play	present	the longer pipes	lower notes			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme
3	vibrate	present	a shorter column of air			fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:9.

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. 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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