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 7

On long summer evenings the four friends stroll through the Wild Wood, and mother-weasels point them out to their babies: the great Mr.

Who acts: four friends, mother weasels · What happens: stroll, point out · To what, where: Wild Wood, friends, babies

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 (four friends, mother 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	On	on	ADP	_	8 stroll	case
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 evenings	amod
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 evenings	compound
4	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stroll	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 friends	det
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 friends	nummod
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stroll	nsubj
8	stroll	stroll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	through	through	ADP	_	12 Wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Wood	det
11	Wild	Wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Wood	amod
12	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stroll	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 point	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 point	cc
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 weasels	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 mother	punct
17	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 point	nsubj
18	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stroll	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 point	obj
20	out	out	ADP	_	18 point	compound:prt
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 babies	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 babies	nmod:poss
23	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 point	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 stroll	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Mr.	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Mr.	amod
27	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 evenings	appos

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stroll	present	the four friends			the Wild Wood	evening		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory
2	point out	present	mother weasels	friends = friend	friends's babies				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to baby=Recipient

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:7.

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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