The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 16

The Mole says: «I simply can't go and turn in, and go to sleep, and do nothing»; the Rat answers «Just what I was thinking myself»: it's no sort of night for bed anyhow, daybreak is not far off, and they may pick up news of Portly from early risers.

Who acts: Mole, Rat, sleep, daybreak, Otters · What happens: say, not go, turn in, go, do, answer · To what, where: sleep, nothing, Rat, sort, news, early risers · 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 (Mole, Rat, sleep, daybreak), 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 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
7	simply	simply	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 go	advmod
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turn	cc
12	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	conj
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 turn	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 go	cc
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 sleep	case
18	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 do	cc
21	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 do	obj
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 answers	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Rat	det
26	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 answers	nsubj
27	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 what	punct
29	Just	just	ADV	_	30 what	advmod
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 thinking	obj
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 thinking	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 thinking	aux
33	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 answers	ccomp
34	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 thinking	obl
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 thinking	punct
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 sort	punct
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 sort	nsubj
38	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 sort	cop
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 sort	det
40	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 answers	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 night	case
42	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sort	nmod
43	for	for	ADP	_	44 bed	case
44	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sort	nmod
45	anyhow	anyhow	ADV	_	40 sort	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 anyhow	punct
47	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 far	nsubj
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 far	cop
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 far	advmod
50	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 sort	conj
51	off	off	ADV	_	50 far	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 pick	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 pick	cc
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 pick	nsubj
55	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 pick	aux
56	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 far	conj
57	up	up	ADP	_	56 pick	compound:prt
58	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 pick	obj
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 Portly	case
60	Portly	portly	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 news	nmod
61	from	from	ADP	_	63 risers	case
62	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 risers	amod
63	risers	riser	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 pick	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Mole					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not go in a quote	can	the Mole = mole				simply property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	turn in in a quote	infinitive	the Mole = mole not said here					vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	go in a quote	infinitive	the Mole = mole not said here		sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
5	do in a quote	present		nothing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
6	answer speech: assert	present	the Rat					tree rules
7	think speech: other in a quote	past · progressive	the Rat = rat	the Rat = rat				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
8	is a	present	sleep	no sort		night	for bed; anyhow property	tree rules
9	not is	present	daybreak				far, off property	tree rules
10	pick up	may	Otters = otter	news of Portly	early risers			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic

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.

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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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