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 6

Badger, he «warned» them: tonight a hundred badgers with rifles would attack from the paddock, six boatloads of Rats would land in the garden, and the fierce Death-or-Glory Toads would storm the orchard!

Who acts: Badger, hundred badgers, six boatloads, fierce Death Toads · What happens: warn, attack, land, storm · To what, where: sentries, paddock, garden, orchard

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 (Badger, hundred badgers, six boatloads, fierce Death Toads), 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	5 warned	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 warned	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 warned	nsubj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 warned	punct
5	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 land	advcl
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 warned	punct
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 warned	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 warned	punct
9	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 attack	obl:unmarked
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 badgers	det
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 badgers	nummod
12	badgers	badger	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 attack	nsubj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 rifles	case
14	rifles	rifle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 badgers	nmod
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 attack	aux
16	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 land	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 paddock	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 paddock	det
19	paddock	paddock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 attack	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 land	punct
21	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 boatloads	nummod
22	boatloads	boatload	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 land	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Rats	case
24	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 boatloads	nmod
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 land	aux
26	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 garden	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 garden	det
29	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 land	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 storm	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 storm	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Toads	det
33	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Toads	amod
34	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Toads	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 Death	punct
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 Glory	cc
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 Glory	punct
38	Glory	glory	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Death	conj
39	Toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 storm	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 storm	aux
41	storm	storm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 land	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 orchard	det
43	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 storm	obj
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 warned	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn in a quote	participle	Badger		sentries = sentry			Badger vocative	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	attack	would	a hundred badgers with rifles			the paddock	tonight		vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	land	would	six boatloads of Rats			the garden			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in garden=Destination
4	storm	would	the fierce Death Toads	the orchard					tree rules

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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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