--- title: Weasels crept up the carriage-drive to the front door; ferrets took… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Weasels crept up the carriage-drive to the front door; ferrets took the backyard through the kitchen-garden; stoats held the conservatory, the billiard-room and the French windows onto the lawn. Who acts: Weasels, ferrets, stoats. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Weasels, ferrets, stoats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.lesson:17 # text = Weasels crept up the carriage-drive to the front door; ferrets took the backyard through the kitchen-garden; stoats held the conservatory, the billiard-room and the French windows onto the lawn. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.lesson # annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Weasels weasel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 5 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 7 drive drive NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 ferrets ferret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 backyard backyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 through through ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 stoats stoat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 conservatory conservatory NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 billiard billiard NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obj 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 36 onto onto ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 lawn lawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **creep up** | past | Weasels | the carriage drive | | | | to the front door | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | past | ferrets | the backyard | | the kitchen garden | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backyard=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | past | stoats | the conservatory and the billiard room onto the lawn and the French windows | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conservatory=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.lesson:17`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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