--- title: Mole reports: «Sentries posted everywhere, guns poked out at us, sto… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Mole reports: «Sentries posted everywhere, guns poked out at us, stones thrown at us... and when they see us, my! how they do laugh! Who acts: Mole, guns. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be qui --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/) / 36 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»), sentence 36 Mole reports: «Sentries posted everywhere, guns poked out at us, stones thrown at us... and when they see us, my! how they do laugh! **Who acts:** Mole, guns · **What happens:** report, post, poke out, throw, see, laugh · **To what, where:** Sentries, stones, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»)» 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 (Mole, guns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:36 # text = Mole reports: «Sentries posted everywhere, guns poked out at us, stones thrown at us... and when they see us, my! how they do laugh! # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Mole mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 reports report VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Sentries sentry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 posted post VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 6 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 9 guns gun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 poked poke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 11 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 16 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 ... ... PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 24 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 my my INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ _ 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ 28 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 32 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | present | Mole | Sentries | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent sentry=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **post** *in a quote* | participle | | Sentries *not said here* | | | | everywhere *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **poke out** *in a quote* | past | guns | stones | | | | at us | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at we=Theme | | 4 | **throw** *in a quote* | participle | | stones *not said here* | | | | at us | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at we=Destination | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | present | guns *= gun* | us | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | | 6 | **laugh** *in a quote* | present · do-support | guns *= gun* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «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:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:36`. **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 ×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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