The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets), sentence 2

In stride the four friends: Badger with his great stick, Mole shouting his war-cry «A Mole!

Who acts: great stick, Badger · What happens: shout, cry · To what, where: war cry

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets)» 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 (great stick, 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 stride	case
2	stride	stride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 friends	nmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 friends	det
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 friends	nummod
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Badger	punct
7	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 friends	appos
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 stick	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 stick	nmod:poss
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stick	amod
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Badger	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Mole	punct
13	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stick	appos
14	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stick	acl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 cry	nmod:poss
16	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cry	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 cry	punct
18	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shouting	obj
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 Mole	punct
20	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 Mole	det
21	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cry	appos
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 stride	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund	Badger's great stick not said here	Badger's war cry					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Topic
2	cry		Badger						nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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:071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.lesson:2.

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 ×3, 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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