The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 5
The chapter is called «The Piper at the Gates of Dawn»: a piper is someone who plays a pipe, and «the gates of dawn» means the very beginning of the morning.
Who acts: piper, someone · What happens: call, be, play, mean, begin · To what, where: chapter, someone, pipe, very beginning, morning · 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 (piper, someone), 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 chapter | det |
| 2 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 Piper | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Piper | det |
| 7 | Piper | piper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Gates | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Gates | det |
| 10 | Gates | Gates | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Piper | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Dawn | case |
| 12 | Dawn | Dawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gates | nmod |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 Piper | punct |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 someone | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 piper | det |
| 16 | piper | piper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 someone | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 someone | cop |
| 18 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 means | nsubj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 plays | nsubj |
| 20 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 someone | acl:relcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pipe | det |
| 22 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plays | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 gates | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 gates | cc |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 27 gates | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 gates | det |
| 27 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 someone | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 dawn | case |
| 29 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gates | nmod |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 gates | punct |
| 31 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 beginning | det |
| 33 | very | very | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 beginning | amod |
| 34 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 means | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 morning | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 morning | det |
| 37 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 beginning | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | the chapter | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a piper | someone | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | play | present | a pipe | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | someone | the very beginning of the morning | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beginning=Topic | ||||
| 5 | begin | the morning | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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:5.
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, R7-rel-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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