--- title: But «there was a feeling in the air of change and departure»: «The c… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: But «there was a feeling in the air of change and departure»: «The cuckoo, of course, had long been silent», and the robin was «beginning to assert himself once more» (robins sing again in autumn). Who acts: feeling, cuckoo, robin, robins. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feeling, cuckoo, robin, robins), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson:7 # text = But «there was a feeling in the air of change and departure»: «The cuckoo, of course, had long been silent», and the robin was «beginning to assert himself once more» (robins sing again in autumn). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×5 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 3 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 4 expl _ _ 4 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 departure departure NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 15 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 17 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 cuckoo cuckoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 of of ADP IN ExtPos=ADV 23 advmod _ _ 21 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 fixed _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 23 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 25 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 cop _ _ 26 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 robin robin NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 34 beginning begin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 assert assert VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 36 obj _ _ 38 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 39 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:advmod 39 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:advmod 40 » » PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct 42 robins robin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 43 sing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 44 again again ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *in a quote* | past | a feeling in the air of change and departure | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | the cuckoo | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **begin** *in a quote* | past · progressive | the robin | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **assert** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the robin *not said here* | robin | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | robins | | | | again; autumn | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:books:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson:7`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×5. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air/6/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air/)