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 4

Mole and Badger were sitting by the fire, unarmed and taken by surprise; there were hundreds against two.

Who acts: Mole, hundreds · What happens: sit, take, be

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 (Mole, hundreds), 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	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Badger	cc
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mole	conj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 unarmed	punct
10	unarmed	unarmed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sitting	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 taken	cc
12	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 unarmed	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 surprise	case
14	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taken	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 were	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 were	expl
17	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	parataxis
18	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 were	nsubj
19	against	against	ADP	_	20 two	case
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 hundreds	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Mole and Badger		by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	take	participle	Mole and Badger not said here		by surprise	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	hundreds against two	there		vn exist-47.1 «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:066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.lesson:4.

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): R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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