The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat), sentence 14
Mole and Badger «argued from history»: no law had ever beaten «cheek and plausibility such as yours, combined with the power of a long purse» (plausibility = sounding believable; a long purse = lots of money).
Who acts: Mole, law · What happens: argue, beat, combine, sound · To what, where: history, cheek · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat)» 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, law), 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 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 argued | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Badger | cc |
| 3 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mole | conj |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 argued | punct |
| 5 | argued | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 history | case |
| 7 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 argued | obl |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 argued | punct |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 argued | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 law | det |
| 11 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beaten | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 beaten | aux |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 beaten | advmod |
| 14 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 argued | parataxis |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 cheek | punct |
| 16 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beaten | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 plausibility | cc |
| 18 | plausibility | plausibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cheek | conj |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 21 yours | case |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 such | fixed |
| 21 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cheek | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 combined | punct |
| 23 | combined | combine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 beaten | advcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 power | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 power | det |
| 26 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 combined | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 purse | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 purse | det |
| 29 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 purse | amod |
| 30 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 power | nmod |
| 31 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 power | punct |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 plausibility | punct |
| 33 | plausibility | plausibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 power | parataxis |
| 34 | = | = | SYM | _ | 40 purse | punct |
| 35 | sounding | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 purse | amod |
| 36 | believable | believable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 purse | amod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 purse | punct |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 purse | det |
| 39 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 purse | amod |
| 40 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 plausibility | conj |
| 41 | = | = | SYM | _ | 42 lots | punct |
| 42 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 purse | appos |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 money | case |
| 44 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 lots | nmod |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 lots | punct |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 argued | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree in a quote | past | Mole and Badger | history | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | beat | past · perfect | no law | cheek and plausibility | ever | such yours | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cheek=Theme | ||
| 3 | combine in a quote | participle | no law not said here | with the power of a long purse | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with power=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | sound | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.lesson:14.
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 ×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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