The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness), sentence 3
They row Portly back, set him down on the tow-path near the ford, and watch him waddle off until Otter leaps up from the shallows with an amazed and joyous bark.
Who acts: marks, Portly, Otter · What happens: row back, set down, watch, waddle off, leap up · To what, where: Portly, tow path, shallows
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 (marks, Portly, Otter), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 row | nsubj |
| 2 | row | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Portly | Portly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 row | obj |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 row | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 row | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 set | obj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 path | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 path | det |
| 11 | tow | tow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 path | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 tow | punct |
| 13 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 ford | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ford | det |
| 16 | ford | ford | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 path | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 watch | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 watch | cc |
| 19 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 row | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 watch | obj |
| 21 | waddle | waddle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 watch | xcomp |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 waddle | compound:prt |
| 23 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 leaps | mark |
| 24 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 leaps | nsubj |
| 25 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 waddle | advcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADV | _ | 29 shallows | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 shallows | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 shallows | det |
| 29 | shallows | shallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 leaps | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 bark | case |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 bark | det |
| 32 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 bark | amod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 joyous | cc |
| 34 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 amazed | conj |
| 35 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leaps | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 row | 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 | row back | present | marks = mark | Portly | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portly=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set down | infinitive | marks = mark not said here | Portly | the tow path near the ford | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on path=Destination | |||
| 3 | watch | infinitive | marks = mark not said here | Portly | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | waddle off | infinitive | Portly not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | leap up | present | Otter | the shallows | with a amazed bark | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from shallow=Trajectory |
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:3.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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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