The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness), sentence 13
Portly is comforted by the promise of «a jaunt on the river in Mr.
Who acts: promise · What happens: comfort, promise · To what, where: Portly, jaunt, Mr.
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness)» 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 (promise), 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 | 3 comforted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 comforted | aux:pass |
| 3 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 promise | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 promise | det |
| 6 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comforted | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 jaunt | case |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 jaunt | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 jaunt | det |
| 10 | jaunt | jaunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 promise | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 river | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 river | det |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jaunt | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Mr. | case |
| 15 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 promise | nmod |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | present · passive | the promise of a jaunt on the river in Mr. | Portly | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | promise | a jaunt on the river | Mr. | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient in=place |
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.
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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): no change. 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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