--- title: Then, one very dark, wet, windy night, the Wild Wooders attacked fro… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Then, one very dark, wet, windy night, the Wild Wooders attacked from three sides at once: weasels up the front drive, ferrets through the kitchen-garden, stoats into the conservatory and billiard-room. Who acts: Wild. 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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 (Wild), 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:3 # text = Then, one very dark, wet, windy night, the Wild Wooders attacked from three sides at once: weasels up the front drive, ferrets through the kitchen-garden, stoats into the conservatory and billiard-room. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 windy windy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Wild Wild PROPN NNP _ 15 nsubj _ _ 14 Wooders Wooders PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ _ 15 attacked attack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 15 obl _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 22 weasels weasel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl 23 up up ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det 25 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 drive drive NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 ferrets ferret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 29 through through ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 stoats stoat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=33:conj 36 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 conservatory conservatory NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 billiard billiard NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ _ 42 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attack** | past | Wild | | | three sides | then; night | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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](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:3`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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