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 8

The stoats were in a flap, running all ways, falling over each other, the Sergeant sending parties off to far corners and then fetching them back — and grumbling that the weasels would be feasting in the warm while they were cut to pieces in the cold.

Who acts: stoats, Sergeant, weasels · What happens: be, run, fall, send off, fetch back, grumble · To what, where: flap, ways, each, parties, corners, warm · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stoats, Sergeant, weasels), 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 stoats	det
2	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flap	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flap	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 flap	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flap	det
6	flap	flap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 running	punct
8	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 flap	advcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 ways	det
10	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 running	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 falling	punct
12	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 running	conj
13	over	over	ADP	_	14 each	case
14	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	12 falling	obl
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 each	fixed
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Sergeant	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Sergeant	det
18	Sergeant	sergeant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flap	conj
19	sending	send	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 Sergeant	acl
20	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sending	obj
21	off	off	ADP	_	19 sending	compound:prt
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 corners	case
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 corners	advmod
24	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sending	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fetching	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 fetching	advmod
27	fetching	fetch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 sending	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fetching	obj
29	back	back	ADV	_	27 fetching	advmod
30	—	—	PUNCT	_	27 fetching	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 grumbling	cc
32	grumbling	grumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 fetching	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 feasting	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 weasels	det
35	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 feasting	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 feasting	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 feasting	aux
38	feasting	feast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 grumbling	ccomp
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 warm	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 warm	det
41	warm	warm	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 feasting	obl
42	while	while	SCONJ	_	45 cut	mark
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 cut	nsubj:pass
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 cut	aux:pass
45	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 feasting	advcl
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 pieces	case
47	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 cut	obl
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 cold	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 cold	det
50	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 cut	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flap	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the stoats		a flap and the Sergeant			tree rules
2	run	gerund	the stoats not said here	all ways				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
3	fall	gerund	the stoats not said here		each			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over each=Location
4	send off	gerund	the Sergeant not said here	parties	corners			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent party=Theme to corner=Destination
5	fetch back	gerund	the Sergeant not said here	parties = party		then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	grumble speech: other	gerund	the Sergeant not said here					vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	feast	would · progressive	the weasels		the warm			vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	cut	past · passive		weasels = weasel	the cold		to pieces result	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result

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:8.

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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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