The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast), sentence 30

Toad thinks «the social gulf between them was so very wide», because he is rich and she is a gaoler's daughter: an old, snobbish idea that some people are «above» others, which is wrong.

Who acts: Toad, social gulf, smell, old snobbish idea · What happens: think, be · To what, where: old snobbish idea, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast)» 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 (Toad, social gulf, smell, old snobbish idea), 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	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 wide	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gulf	det
5	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gulf	amod
6	gulf	gulf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wide	nsubj
7	between	between	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gulf	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wide	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 wide	advmod
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 wide	advmod
12	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thinks	ccomp
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 wide	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rich	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 rich	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rich	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 rich	cop
18	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thinks	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 daughter	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 daughter	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 daughter	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 gaoler	det
23	gaoler	gaoler	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 daughter	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 gaoler	case
25	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rich	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 idea	punct
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 idea	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 idea	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 old	punct
30	snobbish	snobbish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 idea	amod
31	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	obl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 are	mark
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 people	det
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 are	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 idea	acl
36	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 are	punct
37	above	above	ADP	_	39 others	case
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	39 others	punct
39	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 are	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 wrong	punct
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 wrong	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 wrong	cop
43	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 idea	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Toad	a old snobbish idea		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	the social gulf between presses		wide property	tree rules
3	is	present	Toad		rich property	tree rules
4	is a	present	smell	a gaoler's daughter		tree rules
5	is	present	a old snobbish idea		wrong property	tree rules

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:052-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter.lesson:30.

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, 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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