The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets), sentence 6

In five minutes the hall is empty except for about a dozen weasels lying on the floor, whom Mole handcuffs.

Who acts: hall, dozen weasels, Mole · What happens: be, lie, handcuff · To what, where: floor, dozen weasels

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 (hall, dozen weasels, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 minutes	case
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 minutes	nummod
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 empty	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hall	det
5	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 empty	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 empty	cop
7	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	except	except	ADP	_	13 weasels	case
9	for	for	ADP	_	13 weasels	case
10	about	about	ADV	_	12 dozen	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dozen	det
12	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 weasels	nummod
13	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 empty	obl
14	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 weasels	acl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 floor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 floor	det
17	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lying	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 handcuffs	punct
19	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 handcuffs	obj
20	Mole	mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 handcuffs	nsubj
21	handcuffs	handcuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 weasels	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 empty	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the hall			minute	except dozen weasels; empty property	tree rules
2	lie	gerund	dozen weasels not said here		the floor			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
3	handcuff	present	Mole	dozen weasels				vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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:6.

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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