--- title: «They were but four in all, but to the panic-stricken weasels the ha… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: «They were but four in all, but to the panic-stricken weasels the hall seemed full of monstrous animals, grey, black, brown and yellow» (panic-stricken = filled with sudden fear). Who acts: ferrets, hall. 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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 (ferrets, hall), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.lesson:20 # text = «They were but four in all, but to the panic-stricken weasels the hall seemed full of monstrous animals, grey, black, brown and yellow» (panic-stricken = filled with sudden fear). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-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 ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 2 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 conj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 panic panic NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 stricken stricken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 weasels weasel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 monstrous monstrous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 24 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 33 panic panic NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 stricken stricken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 = = SYM SYM Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ _ 37 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | ferrets *= ferret* | four | | all | | | tree rules | | 2 | **seem** *in a quote* | past | the hall | | | | | to the stricken weasels; full *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **fill** | participle | | | | | | with sudden fear | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with fear=Instrument | 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:071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.lesson:20`. **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. **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 XII,…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall/15/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall/)