The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 6

It is midsummer, so the night is short and the sky still holds light «though it was past ten o'clock at night».

Who acts: Piper, night, sky · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: midsummer, light, past ten o'clock

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, night, sky), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 midsummer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 midsummer	cop
3	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 short	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	9 short	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 short	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 short	cop
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 midsummer	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 holds	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 holds	nsubj
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 holds	advmod
14	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 short	conj
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 holds	obj
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 o'clock	punct
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 o'clock	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 o'clock	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 o'clock	cop
20	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 o'clock	amod
21	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 o'clock	nummod
22	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 holds	advcl
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 night	case
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 o'clock	nmod
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 holds	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 midsummer	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Piper	midsummer			tree rules
2	is	present	the night			short property	tree rules
3	hold	present	the sky	light	still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
4	is a in a quote	past	Piper	past ten o'clock	night		tree rules

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:6.

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): R8-pos-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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