The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»), sentence 29

Hearing the noise above, Badger said placidly (calmly): «They are going it, the Weasels!» (going it = having a wild time)

Who acts: Badger, others · What happens: hear, say, go, have · To what, where: noise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»)» 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, others), 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	Hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 noise	det
3	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hearing	obj
4	above	above	ADV	_	1 Hearing	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hearing	punct
6	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	placidly	placidly	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 said	advmod
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 calmly	punct
10	calmly	calmly	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 placidly	conj
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 calmly	punct
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct
14	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 going	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 going	aux
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	ccomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 going	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Weasels	det
20	Weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 going	obj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 going	punct
24	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 going	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 going	obj
26	=	=	SYM	_	27 having	punct
27	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 going	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 time	det
29	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 time	amod
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 having	obj
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	Badger not said here	the noise		above property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
2	say speech: express	past	Badger			placidly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	present · progressive	others = other	noise			tree rules
4	go	gerund		noise			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	have	gerund	others = other not said here		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:29.

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): 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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