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A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the ba --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/26/) [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/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/) / 26 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were), sentence 26 The Sergeant kept «sending off parties of stoats to distant parts of the grounds, and then sending other fellows to fetch 'em back again». **Who acts:** Sergeant · **What happens:** keep, send off, send, fetch back · **To what, where:** parties, distant parts, other fellows, 'em This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were)» 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 (Sergeant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:26 # text = The Sergeant kept «sending off parties of stoats to distant parts of the grounds, and then sending other fellows to fetch 'em back again». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sergeant sergeant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 kept keep VERB VBD Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 sending send VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 xcomp _ _ 6 off off ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 parties party NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 stoats stoat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 grounds grounds NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 sending send VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 20 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 fellows fellow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp 24 'em they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 back back ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 again again ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | the Sergeant | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **send off** *in a quote* | gerund | the Sergeant *not said here* | parties of stoats | | distant parts of the grounds | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent party=Theme to part=Destination | | 3 | **send** *in a quote* | gerund | the Sergeant *not said here* | other fellows | | | then | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme | | 4 | **fetch back** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Sergeant *not said here* | 'em *= they* | | | again | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:26`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/24/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/)