The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»), sentence 30

Badger: «just let us once get past the stoats, with those detestable guns of theirs, and I assure you we shan't want any swords or pistols.

Who acts: you, us, Otter, we · What happens: let, get, assure, not want · To what, where: us, stoats, you, swords · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»)» 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 (you, us, Otter, we), 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	Badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	dep
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 let	advmod
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 get	advmod
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
9	past	past	ADP	_	11 stoats	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stoats	det
11	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 get	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 guns	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 guns	case
14	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 guns	det
15	detestable	detestable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 guns	amod
16	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 get	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 theirs	case
18	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 guns	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 assure	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 assure	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 assure	nsubj
22	assure	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 let	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 assure	iobj
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 want	nsubj
25	sha	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 want	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 want	advmod
27	want	want	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 assure	ccomp
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 swords	det
29	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 want	obj
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 pistols	cc
31	pistols	pistol	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 swords	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Badger	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	us				tree rules
2	get in a quote	infinitive	us not said here			the stoats	with that detestable guns of guns; once property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme past stoat=Destination
3	assure in a quote	present	Otter		you			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not want in a quote	shall	we	any swords or pistols				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sword=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:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:30.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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