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 6

Ever since, the weasels have been living in Toad Hall, lying in bed half the day, eating Toad's food and singing rude songs about him.

Who acts: weasels · What happens: live, lie, eat, sing · To what, where: bed, food, rude songs

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), 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	Ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 since	advmod
2	since	since	ADV	_	8 living	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 since	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 weasels	det
5	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 living	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 living	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 living	aux
8	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Toad	case
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 living	obl
11	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Toad	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lying	punct
13	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 living	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 bed	case
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lying	obl
16	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	18 day	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lying	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eating	punct
20	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 lying	conj
21	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 food	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 Toad	case
23	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eating	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 singing	cc
25	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 lying	conj
26	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 songs	amod
27	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 singing	obj
28	about	about	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 songs	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 living	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present · perfect · progressive	the weasels				in Toad; since property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in toad=Location
2	lie	gerund	the weasels not said here		bed	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
3	eat	gerund	the weasels not said here	Toad's food				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
4	sing speech: express	gerund	the weasels not said here	rude songs			about Toad	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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:6.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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