The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets), sentence 5
They flee through the windows, up the chimney, anywhere away from those sticks.
Who acts: Weasels · What happens: flee · To what, where: windows
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 (Weasels), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flee | nsubj |
| 2 | flee | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 windows | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 windows | det |
| 5 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flee | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 chimney | punct |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 chimney | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chimney | det |
| 9 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 windows | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 away | punct |
| 11 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 away | advmod |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 chimney | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 sticks | case |
| 14 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 sticks | det |
| 15 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 away | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flee | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | present | Weasels = weasel | the windows and the chimney | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through window=Initial_Location |
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:5.
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): no change. 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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