--- title: The voice «died away and ceased as an insect's tiny trumpet dwindles… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: The voice «died away and ceased as an insect's tiny trumpet dwindles swiftly into silence», and the Rat saw «but a distant speck on the white surface of the road». Who acts: voice, tiny trumpet, Rat. 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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 (voice, tiny trumpet, Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.lesson:15 # text = The voice «died away and ceased as an insect's tiny trumpet dwindles swiftly into silence», and the Rat saw «but a distant speck on the white surface of the road». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 4 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 ceased cease VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 trumpet trumpet NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 dwindles dwindle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 15 swiftly swiftly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 16 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 speck speck NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die away** *in a quote* | past | the voice | a distant speck on the white surface of the road | | | | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **cease** *in a quote* | past | the voice *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **dwindle** *in a quote* | present | a insect's tiny trumpet | | | silence | | swiftly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **see** | past | the Rat | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.lesson:15`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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