The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 20

They search «the hedges, the hollow trees, the runnels and their little culverts»: runnels are tiny streams, culverts are little tunnels carrying water under a path.

Who acts: shadows, runnels, culverts, little tunnels · What happens: search, be, carry · To what, where: hedges, tiny streams, little tunnels, water, path

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 (shadows, runnels, culverts, little tunnels), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 search	nsubj
2	search	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 hedges	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hedges	det
5	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 search	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 trees	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
8	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trees	amod
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hedges	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 runnels	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 runnels	det
12	runnels	runnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hedges	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 culverts	cc
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 culverts	nmod:poss
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 culverts	amod
16	culverts	culvert	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hedges	conj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 hedges	punct
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 streams	punct
19	runnels	runnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 streams	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 streams	cop
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 streams	amod
22	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hedges	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tunnels	punct
24	culverts	culvert	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tunnels	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 tunnels	cop
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tunnels	amod
27	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hedges	conj
28	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 tunnels	acl
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carrying	obj
30	under	under	ADP	_	32 path	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 path	det
32	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carrying	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 search	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	search	present	shadows = shadow	the hedges and the hollow trees and the runnels and shadows's little culverts and tiny streams and little tunnels		vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hedge=Location
2	is a	present	runnels	tiny streams		tree rules
3	is a	present	culverts	little tunnels		tree rules
4	carry	gerund	little tunnels not said here	water	a path	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:20.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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