The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 6

By noon they are done, and a timid, bedraggled weasel, one of last night's prisoners, is sent off to deliver them.

What happens: do, send off, deliver · To what, where: invitations, timid bedraggled weasel

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux:pass
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 weasel	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 weasel	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 weasel	det
9	timid	timid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 weasel	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 timid	punct
11	bedraggled	bedraggle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 weasel	amod
12	weasel	weasel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sent	nsubj:pass
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 weasel	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 prisoners	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 night	amod
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 prisoners	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 night	case
19	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 noon	punct
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sent	aux:pass
22	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 done	conj
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 sent	compound:prt
24	to	to	PART	_	25 deliver	mark
25	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sent	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 deliver	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 sent	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	present · passive	invitations = invitation	noon	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	send off	present · passive	a timid bedraggled weasel		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	deliver	to-infinitive	invitations = invitation		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.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): R5-strong ×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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