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 6
Badger thinks they are being attacked from behind and nearly fires his pistol!
Who acts: Badger · What happens: think, attack, fire · To what, where: Mole, pistol · 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), 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 | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 attacked | aux:pass |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 attacked | aux:pass |
| 6 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 attacked | obl |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 from | fixed |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fires | cc |
| 10 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 11 fires | advmod |
| 11 | fires | fire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 thinks | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pistol | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pistol | pistol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fires | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Badger | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | attack | present · passive | Mole | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | fire | present | Badger not said here | Badger's pistol | nearly property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pistol=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:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.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): 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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