The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 12
At the ford Otter gave Portly his first swimming-lesson and taught him fishing, and there Portly caught his first fish, «of which he was so very proud».
Who acts: Otter, Portly · What happens: give, teach, catch, be · To what, where: first swimming lesson, Portly, ford, fishing, first fish · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Otter, Portly), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 ford | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ford | det |
| 3 | ford | ford | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl |
| 4 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Portly | Portly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lesson | nmod:poss |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 lesson | amod |
| 9 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lesson | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 swimming | punct |
| 11 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 taught | cc |
| 13 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 taught | obj |
| 15 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taught | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 caught | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 caught | cc |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 caught | advmod |
| 19 | Portly | Portly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 caught | nsubj |
| 20 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fish | nmod:poss |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 fish | amod |
| 23 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 caught | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 proud | punct |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 27 which | punct |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 proud | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 proud | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 proud | cop |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 proud | advmod |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 proud | advmod |
| 32 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fish | acl:relcl |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 32 proud | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Otter | Portly's first swimming lesson | Portly | the ford | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent portly=Recipient lesson=Theme at ford=Asset | ||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past | Otter not said here | fishing | Portly | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient fishing=Topic | |||
| 3 | catch | past | Portly | Portly's first fish | there | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | Portly | of Portly's first fish; proud 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:12.
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): R7-rel-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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