The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 7
The Mole had spent the day on the river with some companions; the Rat had «a engagement of long standing» (a promise made long ago) to spend the evening with Otter.
Who acts: Mole, Rat, long standing · What happens: spend, have, make, engage · To what, where: river, engagement, promise
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, long standing), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spent | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spent | aux |
| 4 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spent | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spent | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 companions | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 companions | det |
| 12 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spent | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 « | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Rat | det |
| 15 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spent | parataxis |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 engagement | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 engagement | det |
| 19 | engagement | engagement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 standing | case |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 standing | amod |
| 22 | standing | standing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 engagement | nmod |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 engagement | punct |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 promise | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 promise | det |
| 26 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 engagement | appos |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 promise | acl |
| 28 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 ago | advmod |
| 29 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 27 made | advmod |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 promise | punct |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 spend | mark |
| 32 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 engagement | acl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 evening | det |
| 34 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 spend | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 Otter | case |
| 36 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 spend | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past · perfect | the Mole | day | on the river goal; with some companions | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on river=Goal | |||
| 2 | have | past | the Rat | a engagement of long standing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engagement=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | a promise not said here | ago property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | spend | to-infinitive | the Rat not said here | a engagement of long standing not said here | evening | with Otter | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 5 | engage in a quote | long standing | nom engagement «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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:7.
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 ×1, 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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