The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»), sentence 42

Badger: «There are more ways of getting back a place than taking it by storm.» (taking by storm = attacking with force)

Who acts: more ways · What happens: be, get back, take, attack · To what, where: more ways, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»)» 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 (more ways), 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	Badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 ways	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 ways	punct
4	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 are	expl
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ways	cop
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 ways	amod
7	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Badger	appos
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 getting	mark
9	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 ways	acl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 getting	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 place	det
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 getting	obj
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 taking	mark
14	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 getting	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 taking	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 storm	case
17	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taking	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ways	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 taking	punct
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 taking	punct
21	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 ways	parataxis
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 storm	case
23	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taking	obl
24	=	=	SYM	_	25 attacking	punct
25	attacking	attack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 taking	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 force	case
27	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 attacking	obl
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 taking	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		more ways		tree rules
2	get back in a quote	gerund	more ways not said here	a place		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus
3	take in a quote	gerund	more ways not said here	place	by storm	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	take	gerund			by storm	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	attack	gerund			with force	vn attack-60.1-1 «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:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:42.

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, 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.

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