The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 13

Then he straps on a belt, pushes two pistols into it, takes a big stick, and sets off for the Wild Wood at a smart pace.

Who acts: Rat · What happens: strap, push, take, set off · To what, where: two pistols, belt, big stick

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out)» 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 (Rat), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 straps	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 straps	nsubj
3	straps	strap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 belt	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 belt	det
6	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 straps	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pushes	punct
8	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 straps	conj
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 pistols	nummod
10	pistols	pistol	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pushes	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pushes	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 takes	punct
14	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 straps	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stick	det
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stick	amod
17	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 takes	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sets	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sets	cc
20	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 straps	conj
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 sets	compound:prt
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 Wood	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Wood	det
24	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	25 Wood	flat
25	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 sets	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 pace	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 pace	det
28	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pace	amod
29	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sets	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 straps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strap	present	Rat			then	on a belt	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on belt=Co-Patient
2	push	present	Rat not said here	two pistols	belt			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pistol=Theme into it=Destination
3	take	present	Rat not said here	a big stick				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
4	set off	present	Rat not said here				for the Wild Wood; at a smart pace	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood.lesson:13.

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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