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 25

The stoats call «It will be your head next time, Toady!» and laugh «till they nearly had two fits—that is, one fit each, of course» (a fit here = a sudden attack of laughing).

Who acts: stoats, boat, that · What happens: call, be, laugh, have, attack · To what, where: head, two fits, one, laughing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stoats, boat, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stoats	det
2	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 call	nsubj
3	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 head	punct
5	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 head	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 head	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 head	cop
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	ccomp
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Toady	punct
13	Toady	toady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	appos
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 call	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 laugh	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 laugh	cc
17	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 call	conj
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 laugh	punct
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
21	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	22 had	advmod
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 laugh	advcl
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 fits	nummod
24	fits	fit	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 had	obj
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 one	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 one	cop
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 one	punct
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 had	obl
30	fit	fit	ADP	_	31 each	case
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 one	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 each	punct
33	of	of	ADP	_	38 fit	case
34	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 of	fixed
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 of	punct
36	(	(	PUNCT	_	38 fit	punct
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 fit	det
38	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 each	nmod
39	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 fit	advmod
40	=	=	PUNCT	_	43 attack	punct
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 attack	det
42	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 attack	amod
43	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fit	parataxis
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 laughing	case
45	laughing	laughing	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 attack	nmod
46	)	)	PUNCT	_	43 attack	punct
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 call	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: express	present	the stoats		time		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	future	boat	your head			tree rules
3	laugh	present	the stoats not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have in a quote	past	stoats = stoat	two fits		nearly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Patient
5	is a in a quote	present	that	one		fit each	tree rules
6	attack			laughing			nom attack «act 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:066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.lesson:25.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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