The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness), sentence 2
Portly wakes with a squeak of joy, then searches the island for the one who watched over him and cries when he cannot find him; the Rat stares at deep hoof-marks: «Some — great — animal — has been here».
Who acts: Portly, one, Rat, great animal, joy · What happens: wake, search, watch, cry, not find, stare · To what, where: island, Vision, deep hoof marks · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Portly, one, Rat, great animal), 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 | 2 wakes | nsubj |
| 2 | wakes | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 squeak | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 squeak | det |
| 5 | squeak | squeak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wakes | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 squeak | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 searches | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 searches | advmod |
| 10 | searches | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wakes | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 island | det |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 searches | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 searches | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 watched | nsubj |
| 17 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | acl:relcl |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 watched | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cries | cc |
| 21 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 watched | conj |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 find | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 find | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 find | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 find | advmod |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 cries | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 find | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 stares | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Rat | det |
| 30 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 stares | nsubj |
| 31 | stares | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 cries | conj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 hoof | case |
| 33 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 marks | amod |
| 34 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 marks | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 marks | punct |
| 36 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 stares | obl |
| 37 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 41 great | punct |
| 38 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 41 great | punct |
| 39 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 animal | det |
| 40 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Some | punct |
| 41 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 animal | amod |
| 42 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 animal | punct |
| 43 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 here | nsubj |
| 44 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 marks | punct |
| 45 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 here | aux |
| 46 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 47 here | cop |
| 47 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 marks | parataxis |
| 48 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 36 marks | punct |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wakes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | present | Portly | with a squeak of joy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with squeak=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | search | present | Portly not said here | the island | then | for the one | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent island=Location for one=Theme | ||
| 3 | watch | past | the one | over Portly | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | present | the one not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not find | can | Portly | Vision | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 6 | stare | present | the Rat | deep hoof marks | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present · perfect | some great animal | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | squeak | joy | nom squeak «event 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:051-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness.lesson:2.
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 ×4, 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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