The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets), sentence 36

«Won back by matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of sticks.» (valour = bravery; consummate = perfect; strategy = a clever plan)

What happens: win back, handle · To what, where: sticks

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: 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	_	2 Won	punct
2	Won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 Won	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 valour	case
5	matchless	matchless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 valour	amod
6	valour	valour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Won	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 valour	punct
8	consummate	consummate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 strategy	amod
9	strategy	strategy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 valour	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 handling	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 handling	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 handling	det
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 handling	amod
14	handling	handling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 valour	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 sticks	case
16	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 handling	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Won	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Won	punct
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 valour	punct
20	valour	valour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bravery	compound
21	=	=	SYM	_	20 valour	punct
22	bravery	bravery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Won	parataxis
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 consummate	punct
24	consummate	consummate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bravery	parataxis
25	=	=	SYM	_	28 strategy	punct
26	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 strategy	amod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 perfect	punct
28	strategy	strategy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 consummate	dep
29	=	=	SYM	_	32 plan	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 plan	det
31	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 plan	amod
32	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 consummate	obl
33	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 consummate	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win back in a quote	past						by matchless valour and consummate strategy and a proper handling of sticks	tree rules
2	handle in a quote			sticks					nom handling «act transitive»: of=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:36.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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