The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book), sentence 14

The song begins: «The Toad—came—home! / There was panic in the parlours and howling in the halls, / There was crying in the cow-sheds and shrieking in the stalls, / When the Toad—came—home!» The second verse («There was smashing in of window and crashing in of door») ends the same way.

Who acts: song, Toad, panic, second verse · What happens: begin, come, be, howl, cry, shriek · To what, where: parlours, cow sheds, stalls, window, door, same way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» 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 (song, Toad, panic, second verse), 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 song	det
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begins	nsubj
3	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 begins	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Toad	det
7	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begins	ccomp
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 home	punct
11	home	home	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
13	/	/	SYM	_	3 begins	punct
14	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begins	conj
16	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 was	nsubj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 parlours	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 parlours	det
19	parlours	parlour	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 was	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 howling	cc
21	howling	howl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 begins	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 halls	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 halls	det
24	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 howling	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 crying	punct
26	/	/	SYM	_	28 was	cc
27	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 crying	aux
29	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 begins	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	34 sheds	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sheds	det
32	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sheds	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 cow	punct
34	sheds	shed	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 crying	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 shrieking	cc
36	shrieking	shriek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 crying	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 stalls	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 stalls	det
39	stalls	stall	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 shrieking	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 came	punct
41	/	/	SYM	_	46 came	cc
42	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 came	advmod
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Toad	det
44	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 came	nsubj
45	—	-	PUNCT	_	44 Toad	punct
46	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 crying	conj
47	—	-	PUNCT	_	46 came	punct
48	home	home	ADV	_	46 came	advmod
49	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 begins	punct
50	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 begins	punct
51	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 verse	det
52	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	53 verse	amod
53	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 ends	nsubj
54	(	(	PUNCT	_	58 smashing	punct
55	«	«	PUNCT	_	58 smashing	punct
56	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	57 was	expl
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 smashing	aux
58	smashing	smash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 begins	conj
59	in	in	ADP	_	61 window	case
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 window	case
61	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 smashing	obl
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 crashing	cc
63	crashing	crash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 smashing	conj
64	in	in	ADP	_	66 door	case
65	of	of	ADP	_	66 door	case
66	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 crashing	obl
67	»	»	PUNCT	_	58 smashing	punct
68	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 begins	punct
69	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 begins	parataxis
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 way	det
71	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 way	amod
72	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 ends	obj
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begins	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	present	the song				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	come in a quote	past	the Toad			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be in a quote	past	panic		the parlours; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in parlour=Location
4	howl in a quote	gerund	the song not said here			in the halls	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in hall=Theme
5	cry speech: express in a quote	past · progressive	the song not said here		the cow sheds		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shed=Location
6	shriek in a quote	gerund	the song not said here		the stalls		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stall=Location
7	come in a quote	past	the Toad			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	smash in a quote	past · progressive	the song not said here		window		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in window=Destination
9	crash in a quote	gerund	the song not said here		door		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in door=Location
10	end	present	the second verse	the same way			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality way=Eventuality

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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:14.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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