The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 10

A weir is a low wall built across a river; the water pours over it fast and foaming, which is dangerous for a small swimmer.

Who acts: weir, water, low wall · What happens: be, build, pour, foam · To what, where: low wall, river

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 (weir, water, low wall), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 weir	det
2	weir	weir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wall	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wall	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wall	det
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wall	amod
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wall	acl
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 fast	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pours	nsubj
14	pours	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wall	parataxis
15	over	over	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pours	obl
17	fast	fast	ADV	_	14 pours	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 foaming	cc
19	foaming	foam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 fast	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dangerous	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 dangerous	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 dangerous	cop
23	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wall	parataxis
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 swimmer	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 swimmer	det
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 swimmer	amod
27	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dangerous	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wall	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a weir	a low wall			tree rules
2	build	participle		a low wall not said here	a river		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	pour	present	the water		river	fast property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location
4	foam	gerund	the water not said here				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	a low wall			for a small swimmer; dangerous property	tree rules

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:10.

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): no change. 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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