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 3

Then, one very dark, wet, windy night, the Wild Wooders attacked from three sides at once: weasels up the front drive, ferrets through the kitchen-garden, stoats into the conservatory and billiard-room.

Who acts: Wild · What happens: attack · To what, where: three sides

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 (Wild), 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	15 attacked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 night	nummod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 dark	advmod
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 night	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 night	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wet	punct
9	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 night	amod
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 attacked	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 night	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Wooders	det
13	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	15 attacked	nsubj
14	Wooders	Wooders	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Wild	flat
15	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 sides	case
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 sides	nummod
18	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 attacked	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 once	case
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 attacked	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 weasels	punct
22	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 attacked	parataxis
23	up	up	ADP	_	26 drive	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 drive	det
25	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 drive	amod
26	drive	drive	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 weasels	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ferrets	punct
28	ferrets	ferret	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 weasels	conj
29	through	through	ADP	_	33 garden	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 garden	det
31	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 garden	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 kitchen	punct
33	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ferrets	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 stoats	punct
35	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 weasels	conj
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 conservatory	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 conservatory	det
38	conservatory	conservatory	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stoats	nmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 room	cc
40	billiard	billiard	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 room	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 billiard	punct
42	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 conservatory	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 attacked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	past	Wild			three sides	then; night		vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:3.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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