The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat), sentence 17
Weasels crept up the carriage-drive to the front door; ferrets took the backyard through the kitchen-garden; stoats held the conservatory, the billiard-room and the French windows onto the lawn.
Who acts: Weasels, ferrets, stoats · What happens: creep up, take, hold · To what, where: carriage drive, backyard, kitchen garden, conservatory
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat)» 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 (Weasels, ferrets, stoats), 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 | Weasels | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crept | nsubj |
| 2 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 crept | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 drive | det |
| 5 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drive | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 drive | punct |
| 7 | drive | drive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crept | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 10 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 door | amod |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crept | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | ferrets | ferret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crept | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 backyard | det |
| 16 | backyard | backyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 garden | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 garden | det |
| 19 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 garden | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 kitchen | punct |
| 21 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 held | punct |
| 23 | stoats | stoat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 held | nsubj |
| 24 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crept | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 conservatory | det |
| 26 | conservatory | conservatory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 held | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 room | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 room | det |
| 29 | billiard | billiard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 room | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 billiard | punct |
| 31 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 conservatory | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 windows | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 windows | det |
| 34 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 windows | amod |
| 35 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 room | conj |
| 36 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 38 lawn | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 lawn | det |
| 38 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 room | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep up | past | Weasels | the carriage drive | to the front door | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | ferrets | the backyard | the kitchen garden | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backyard=Theme | |||
| 3 | hold | past | stoats | the conservatory and the billiard room onto the lawn and the French windows | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conservatory=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.
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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 ×2, R8-pos-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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