The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 19

They hear «the long continuous drone of the Badger's voice, rising and falling in waves of oratory» (oratory = speech-making); then «long-drawn sobs» from Toad, «a soft-hearted and affectionate fellow, very easily converted—for the time being—to any point of view».

Who acts: fits, long continuous drone · What happens: hear, rise, fall, draw, be, wave · To what, where: long continuous drone, waves, oratory, view · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom)» 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 (fits, long continuous drone), 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 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 drone	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 drone	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 drone	amod
6	continuous	continuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 drone	amod
7	drone	drone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 voice	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Badger	det
10	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 voice	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Badger	case
12	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drone	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rising	punct
14	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 drone	acl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 falling	cc
16	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 rising	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 waves	case
18	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 falling	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 oratory	case
20	oratory	oratory	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 waves	nmod
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 rising	punct
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 making	punct
23	oratory	oratory	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 making	appos
24	=	=	SYM	_	23 oratory	case
25	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 making	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 speech	punct
27	making	making	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	parataxis
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 making	punct
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 sobs	punct
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 drawn	advmod
31	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 sobs	punct
32	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 drawn	advmod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 long	punct
34	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 sobs	amod
35	sobs	sob	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hear	obl
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	35 sobs	punct
37	from	from	ADP	_	38 Toad	case
38	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 sobs	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 hearted	punct
40	«	«	PUNCT	_	38 Toad	punct
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 fellow	det
42	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 hearted	amod
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 soft	punct
44	hearted	heart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 fellow	amod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 fellow	cc
46	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 hearted	conj
47	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Toad	appos
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 converted	punct
49	very	very	ADV	_	50 easily	advmod
50	easily	easily	ADV	_	51 converted	advmod
51	converted	converted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 fellow	acl
52	—	-	PUNCT	_	57 —	punct
53	for	for	ADP	_	55 time	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 time	det
55	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 —	obl
56	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	57 —	cop
57	—	—	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 fellow	conj
58	to	to	ADP	_	60 point	case
59	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	60 point	det
60	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 —	obl
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 view	case
62	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 point	nmod
63	»	»	PUNCT	_	57 —	punct
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hear	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	fits = fit	the long continuous drone of the Badger's voice			drawn sobs from Toad obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer drone=Stimulus
2	rise in a quote	gerund	the long continuous drone of the Badger's voice not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall in a quote	gerund	the long continuous drone of the Badger's voice not said here		waves of oratory			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in wave=Location
4	draw in a quote	participle				then	long property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	gerund	fits = fit not said here			time	to any point of view; — property	tree rules
6	wave in a quote			oratory				nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient
7	point in a quote			view				nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.lesson:19.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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