The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 21

Old words: «selvedge» = edge; «torrid» = burning hot; «keeping it up late» = staying up late having fun; «quest» = a search.

Who acts: Old words · What happens: selvedge, burn, keep up, stay up, have · To what, where: edge, fun

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 (Old words), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	amod
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hot	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 selvedge	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 selvedge	punct
5	selvedge	selvedge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 words	acl:relcl
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 selvedge	punct
7	=	=	PUNCT	_	8 edge	punct
8	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 selvedge	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 »	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 torrid	punct
11	torrid	torrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 »	amod
12	»	»	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 words	conj
13	=	=	PUNCT	_	15 hot	punct
14	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 hot	amod
15	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 keeping	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 keeping	punct
18	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 hot	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 keeping	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 keeping	compound:prt
21	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 keeping	advmod
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 keeping	punct
23	=	=	PUNCT	_	24 staying	punct
24	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 hot	advcl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 staying	compound:prt
26	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 staying	advmod
27	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 staying	advcl
28	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 having	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 quest	punct
30	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 quest	punct
31	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hot	conj
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 quest	punct
33	=	=	PUNCT	_	35 search	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 search	det
35	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 quest	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 hot	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	selvedge in a quote	infinitive	Old words and torrid » not said here	edge		tree rules
2	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep up in a quote	gerund		edge	late property	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	stay up	gerund			late property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	gerund		fun		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient

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:21.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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