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 26

The Sergeant kept «sending off parties of stoats to distant parts of the grounds, and then sending other fellows to fetch 'em back again».

Who acts: Sergeant · What happens: keep, send off, send, fetch back · To what, where: parties, distant parts, other fellows, 'em

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 (Sergeant), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sergeant	det
2	Sergeant	sergeant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 sending	punct
5	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 kept	xcomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 sending	compound:prt
7	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sending	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 stoats	case
9	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 parties	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 parts	case
11	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 parts	amod
12	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sending	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 grounds	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grounds	det
15	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	12 parts	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sending	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sending	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 sending	advmod
19	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sending	conj
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fellows	amod
21	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sending	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 fetch	mark
23	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sending	advcl
24	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fetch	obj
25	back	back	ADV	_	23 fetch	advmod
26	again	again	ADV	_	23 fetch	advmod
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 sending	punct
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	keep	past	the Sergeant				tree rules
2	send off in a quote	gerund	the Sergeant not said here	parties of stoats	distant parts of the grounds		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent party=Theme to part=Destination
3	send in a quote	gerund	the Sergeant not said here	other fellows		then	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme
4	fetch back in a quote	to-infinitive	the Sergeant not said here	'em = they		again	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:26.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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