--- title: Portly is Otter's little son; he often strays and turns up again, be… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: Portly is Otter's little son; he often strays and turns up again, because, says the Mole, «he's so adventurous». Who acts: Portly, Mole. 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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 (Portly, Mole), 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:8 # text = Portly is Otter's little son; he often strays and turns up again, because, says the Mole, «he's so adventurous». # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Portly portly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 often often ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 strays stray VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 again again ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 adventurous adventurous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Portly | Otter's little son | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stray** | present | Portly | | | | | often *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **turn up** | present | Portly *not said here* | | | | again | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Portly *not said here* | the Mole | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mole=Topic | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Mole | | | | | adventurous *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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