The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 8

Portly is Otter's little son; he often strays and turns up again, because, says the Mole, «he's so adventurous».

Who acts: Portly, Mole · What happens: be, stray, turn up, say · To what, where: little son, Mole · 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 (Portly, Mole), 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	Portly	portly	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 son	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 son	cop
3	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Otter	case
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 son	amod
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 strays	nsubj
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 strays	advmod
10	strays	stray	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 son	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turns	cc
12	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 strays	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 turns	compound:prt
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 turns	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 says	mark
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 because	punct
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 turns	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Mole	det
20	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 says	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 adventurous	punct
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 adventurous	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 adventurous	nsubj
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 adventurous	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 adventurous	advmod
26	adventurous	adventurous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 says	ccomp
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 adventurous	punct
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Portly	Otter's little son			tree rules
2	stray	present	Portly			often property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	turn up	present	Portly not said here		again		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	Portly not said here	the Mole			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mole=Topic
5	is in a quote	present	Mole			adventurous property	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:8.

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. 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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