The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 15
«I drew him out and pumped him» means the Rat asked Otter gentle questions until he told the whole worry; «turn in» means go to bed.
Who acts: Portly, Rat · What happens: draw out, pump, mean, ask, tell, turn in · To what, where: Portly, Otter gentle questions, whole worry, bed · 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 (Portly, Rat), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 means | ccomp |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 drew | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pumped | cc |
| 7 | pumped | pump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pumped | obj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Rat | det |
| 12 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 means | ccomp |
| 14 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 questions | compound |
| 15 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 questions | amod |
| 16 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 asked | obj |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 told | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | nsubj |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 asked | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 worry | det |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 worry | amod |
| 22 | worry | worry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 turn | punct |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 turn | punct |
| 25 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 means | csubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 turn | compound:prt |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 turn | punct |
| 28 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 means | conj |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 means | ccomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 bed | case |
| 31 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 go | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw out in a quote | past | Portly | Portly | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pump in a quote | past | Portly not said here | Portly | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the Rat | Otter gentle questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | Rat | the whole worry | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent worry=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | turn in in a quote | present | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 8 | go | infinitive | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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