The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 9
This time it is serious: he has been missing «for some days now», the Otters have hunted everywhere, and «young Portly hasn't learnt to swim very well yet».
Who acts: sky, Mole, Otters, young Portly · What happens: be, miss, hunt, not learn, swim
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 (sky, Mole, Otters, young Portly), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 serious | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 serious | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 serious | cop |
| 5 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 missing | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 missing | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 missing | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 missing | aux |
| 10 | missing | miss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 serious | parataxis |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 missing | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 days | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 days | det |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 missing | obl |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | _ | 10 missing | advmod |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 missing | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hunted | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Otters | det |
| 19 | Otters | otter | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 hunted | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 hunted | aux |
| 21 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 serious | conj |
| 22 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 hunted | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 learnt | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 learnt | cc |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 30 learnt | punct |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Portly | amod |
| 27 | Portly | portly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 learnt | nsubj |
| 28 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 learnt | aux |
| 29 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 learnt | advmod |
| 30 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 serious | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 swim | mark |
| 32 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 learnt | xcomp |
| 33 | very | very | ADV | _ | 34 well | advmod |
| 34 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 swim | advmod |
| 35 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 32 swim | advmod |
| 36 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 30 learnt | punct |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 serious | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sky | time | serious property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | miss | present · perfect · progressive | Mole | now; day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | hunt | present · perfect | the Otters | everywhere property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not learn in a quote | present · perfect | young Portly | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | swim in a quote | to-infinitive | young Portly not said here | yet | well property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:9.
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 ×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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