The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»), sentence 36

Mole reports: «Sentries posted everywhere, guns poked out at us, stones thrown at us... and when they see us, my! how they do laugh!

Who acts: Mole, guns · What happens: report, post, poke out, throw, see, laugh · To what, where: Sentries, stones, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»)» 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, guns), 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	2 reports	nsubj
2	reports	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Sentries	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Sentries	punct
5	Sentries	sentry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reports	obj
6	posted	post	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Sentries	acl
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 posted	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 poked	punct
9	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 poked	nsubj
10	poked	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reports	parataxis
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 poked	compound:prt
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 us	case
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 poked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stones	punct
15	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 poked	obl
16	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 stones	acl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 us	case
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 thrown	obl
19	...	...	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 see	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 see	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
23	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 poked	conj
24	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 see	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 my	punct
26	my	my	INTJ	_	10 poked	discourse
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 laugh	punct
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 laugh	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 laugh	nsubj
30	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 laugh	aux
31	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 poked	conj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 reports	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	report	present	Mole	Sentries		vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent sentry=Theme clause=Attribute
2	post in a quote	participle		Sentries not said here	everywhere property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	poke out in a quote	past	guns	stones	at us	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at we=Theme
4	throw in a quote	participle		stones not said here	at us	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at we=Destination
5	see in a quote	present	guns = gun	us		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus
6	laugh in a quote	present · do-support	guns = gun			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:36.

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. 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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