The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 13

Otter watches there every night «on the chance, you know, just on the chance!» — that is, just in case Portly comes back.

Who acts: Otter, you, that, Portly · What happens: watch, know, be, come back · To what, where: chance, case · 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, you, that, 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	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 watches	nsubj
2	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 watches	advmod
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watches	obl:unmarked
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 chance	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 chance	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chance	det
9	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watches	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
12	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 watches	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chance	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	17 chance	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 chance	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chance	det
17	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watches	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 watches	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 watches	punct
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	26 case	punct
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 case	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 case	cop
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 is	punct
24	just	just	ADV	_	26 case	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 case	case
26	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watches	parataxis
27	Portly	Portly	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 comes	nsubj
28	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 case	advcl
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 comes	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 watches	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	present	Otter	the chance; there	night	on the chance	tree rules
2	know in a quote	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	that	case			tree rules
4	come back	present	Portly				vn escape-51.1-1 «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, 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:13.

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): R6-punct-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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