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 5

In the cold, dark, narrow passage he lags behind, gets frightened, rushes forward and knocks Rat into Mole and Mole into Badger.

Who acts: Toad · What happens: lag behind, get, frighten, rush, knock · To what, where: cold dark narrow passage, Rat, Mole

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 (Toad), 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	In	in	ADP	_	8 passage	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 passage	det
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 passage	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cold	punct
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 passage	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct
7	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 passage	amod
8	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gets	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lags	nsubj
10	lags	lag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 passage	acl:relcl
11	behind	behind	ADV	_	10 lags	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 passage	punct
13	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 gets	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rushes	punct
16	rushes	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 gets	conj
17	forward	forward	ADV	_	16 rushes	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 knocks	cc
19	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 gets	conj
20	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 knocks	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	22 Mole	case
22	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knocks	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Mole	cc
24	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Mole	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 Badger	case
26	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 knocks	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 gets	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lag behind	present	Toad	the cold dark narrow passage not said here		behind property	tree rules
2	get	present			the cold dark narrow passage		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	frighten	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	rush	present				forward property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	knock	present		Rat	Mole and Mole	into Badger	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent rat=Theme into mole=Destination

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:5.

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): 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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