The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets), sentence 9

The stoats, already jumpy from his morning trick, heard the uproar; some threw down their guns and ran, and the rest thought the weasels had betrayed them.

Who acts: stoats, some, rest, weasels, Mole · What happens: hear, throw down, run, think, betray, trick · To what, where: uproar, guns · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stoats, some, rest, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stoats	det
2	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heard	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 jumpy	punct
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 jumpy	advmod
5	jumpy	jumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stoats	appos
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 trick	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 trick	nmod:poss
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trick	compound
9	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jumpy	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stoats	punct
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 uproar	det
13	uproar	uproar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 threw	punct
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 threw	nsubj
16	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	parataxis
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 threw	compound:prt
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 guns	nmod:poss
19	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 threw	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ran	cc
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 threw	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thought	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 thought	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rest	det
25	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 thought	nsubj
26	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 weasels	det
28	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 betrayed	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 betrayed	aux
30	betrayed	betray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 thought	ccomp
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 betrayed	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hear	past	the stoats	the uproar	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer uproar=Stimulus
2	throw down	past	some	stoats's guns	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme
3	run	past	some not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	past	the rest		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	betray	past · perfect	the weasels	guns = gun	tree rules
6	trick		Mole		nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent

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:9.

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): 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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