The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End), sentence 16

«The sob he had fought with so long refused to be beaten … poor Mole at last gave up the struggle, and cried freely and helplessly and openly».

Who acts: Rat, sob, poor Mole · What happens: fight, refuse, not beat, give up, cry · To what, where: sob, struggle, last

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End)» 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 (Rat, sob, poor Mole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 refused	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sob	det
3	sob	sob	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 refused	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fought	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fought	aux
6	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sob	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	6 fought	case
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 long	advmod
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 fought	advmod
10	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	13 beaten	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 beaten	aux:pass
13	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 refused	xcomp
14	…	…	PUNCT	_	10 refused	punct
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Mole	amod
16	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 gave	nsubj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gave	obl
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 refused	parataxis
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 gave	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 struggle	det
22	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cried	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cried	cc
25	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gave	conj
26	freely	freely	ADV	_	25 cried	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 helplessly	cc
28	helplessly	helplessly	ADV	_	26 freely	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 openly	cc
30	openly	openly	ADV	_	26 freely	conj
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 cried	punct
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 refused	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fight in a quote	past · perfect	Rat	the sob not said here		long property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sob=Co-Agent
2	refuse in a quote	past	the sob				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not beat in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	the sob not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»
4	give up in a quote	past	poor Mole	the struggle	last		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent struggle=Source
5	cry speech: express in a quote	past	poor Mole not said here			freely property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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, 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:042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.lesson:16.

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 ×1, 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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