The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets), sentence 20

«They were but four in all, but to the panic-stricken weasels the hall seemed full of monstrous animals, grey, black, brown and yellow» (panic-stricken = filled with sudden fear).

Who acts: ferrets, hall · What happens: be, seem, fill · To what, where: four, all

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 (ferrets, hall), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 four	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 four	cop
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 four	cc
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 seemed	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 four	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 seemed	cc
10	to	to	ADP	_	15 weasels	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 weasels	det
12	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stricken	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 panic	punct
14	stricken	stricken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 weasels	amod
15	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 seemed	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hall	det
17	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seemed	xcomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 animals	case
21	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 animals	amod
22	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 full	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 »	punct
24	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 animals	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grey	punct
26	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grey	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 brown	punct
28	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 black	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 yellow	cc
30	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 black	conj
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
32	(	(	PUNCT	_	36 =	punct
33	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 =	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 panic	punct
35	stricken	stricken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 =	amod
36	=	=	SYM	Number=Sing	18 seemed	parataxis
37	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 =	acl
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 fear	case
39	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 fear	amod
40	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 filled	obl
41	)	)	PUNCT	_	36 =	punct
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	ferrets = ferret	four	all		tree rules
2	seem in a quote	past	the hall			to the stricken weasels; full property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	fill	participle				with sudden fear	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with fear=Instrument

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:20.

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 ×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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