The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets), sentence 21

«The affair was soon over»: in five minutes the room was cleared; about a dozen enemies lay on the floor, and Mole fitted them with handcuffs.

Who acts: dozen enemies, Mole · What happens: clear, lay, fit · To what, where: room, floor, enemies

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 (dozen enemies, Mole), 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	_	15 cleared	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 affair	det
3	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cleared	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 »	cop
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 »	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 »	case
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 cleared	punct
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 cleared	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 minutes	case
10	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 minutes	nummod
11	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cleared	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cleared	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cleared	aux:pass
15	cleared	clear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
17	about	about	ADV	_	19 dozen	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dozen	det
19	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 enemies	nummod
20	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lay	nsubj
21	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cleared	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 floor	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 floor	det
24	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fitted	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fitted	cc
27	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 fitted	nsubj
28	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lay	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fitted	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 handcuffs	case
31	handcuffs	handcuffs	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fitted	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 cleared	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clear	past · passive		the room		minute	the affair obl	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
2	lay	past	dozen enemies		the floor			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination
3	fit	past	Mole	enemies = enemy			with handcuffs	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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:21.

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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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