The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were), sentence 22
Badger»; «A hundred bloodthirsty badgers, armed with rifles, are going to attack Toad Hall this very night, by way of the paddock.»
Who acts: hundred bloodthirsty badgers · What happens: go, attack · To what, where: Toad Hall
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were)» 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 (hundred bloodthirsty badgers), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Badger | punct |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Badger | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 1 Badger | punct |
| 5 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 badgers | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 badgers | nummod |
| 7 | bloodthirsty | bloodthirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 badgers | amod |
| 8 | badgers | badger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 going | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 armed | punct |
| 10 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 badgers | amod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 rifles | case |
| 12 | rifles | rifle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 armed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rifles | punct |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Badger | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 attack | mark |
| 17 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 going | xcomp |
| 18 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Hall | compound |
| 19 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 attack | obj |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 night | det |
| 21 | very | very | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 night | amod |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 attack | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 way | punct |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 attack | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 paddock | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 paddock | det |
| 28 | paddock | paddock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 way | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Badger | punct |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Badger | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character, act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | a hundred bloodthirsty badgers | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | attack | to-infinitive | a hundred bloodthirsty badgers not said here | Toad Hall | night | by way of the paddock | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Patient |
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:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:22.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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