--- title: At the ford Otter gave Portly his first swimming-lesson and taught h… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: At the ford Otter gave Portly his first swimming-lesson and taught him fishing, and there Portly caught his first fish, «of which he was so very proud». Who acts: Otter, Portly. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Otter, Portly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.lesson:12 # text = At the ford Otter gave Portly his first swimming-lesson and taught him fishing, and there Portly caught his first fish, «of which he was so very proud». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ford ford NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Portly Portly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 iobj _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 8 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 9 swimming swimming NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 19 Portly Portly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 23 amod _ _ 23 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 obl _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 very very ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 acl:relcl _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | Otter | Portly's first swimming lesson | Portly | the ford | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent portly=Recipient lesson=Theme at ford=Asset | | 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Otter *not said here* | fishing | Portly | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient fishing=Topic | | 3 | **catch** | past | Portly | Portly's first fish | | there | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Portly | | | | | of Portly's first fish; proud *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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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