The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 1
The Rat comes back quiet and worried: little Portly, Otter's young son, has been missing for days, and he cannot swim well yet, so everyone is secretly thinking of the weir and of traps.
Who acts: Rat, little Portly, everyone · What happens: come back, miss, not swim, think
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing)» of the books 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 (Rat, little Portly, everyone), 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 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 comes | advmod |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 comes | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 worried | cc |
| 7 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 quiet | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Portly | amod |
| 10 | Portly | Portly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 missing | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 son | punct |
| 12 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Otter | case |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 son | amod |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Portly | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 missing | punct |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 missing | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 missing | aux |
| 19 | missing | miss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 comes | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 days | case |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 missing | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 swim | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 swim | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 swim | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 swim | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 swim | advmod |
| 27 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 missing | conj |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 swim | advmod |
| 29 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 27 swim | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 thinking | punct |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 thinking | advmod |
| 32 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 35 thinking | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 thinking | aux |
| 34 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 35 thinking | advmod |
| 35 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 comes | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 weir | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 weir | det |
| 38 | weir | weir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 thinking | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 traps | cc |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 traps | case |
| 41 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 weir | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 back | present | the Rat | quiet property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | miss | present · perfect · progressive | little Portly | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not swim | can | Rat | yet | well property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | present · progressive | everyone | of the weir and traps; secretly property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:books:049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.lesson:1.
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): R1-cc-next ×3, R3-conj-first ×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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