The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were), sentence 24
And «a picked body of Toads, known as the Die-hards, or the Death-or-Glory Toads, will storm the orchard» (picked = specially chosen; die-hards = fighters who never give up).
Who acts: picked body, fighters · What happens: pick, know, storm, choose, die, not give up · To what, where: picked body, orchard, », hards · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were)» 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 (picked body, fighters), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 storm | cc |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 storm | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 body | det |
| 4 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 body | amod |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 storm | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Toads | case |
| 7 | Toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 body | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 known | punct |
| 9 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 body | acl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 hards | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hards | det |
| 12 | Die | die | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hards | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Die | punct |
| 14 | hards | hard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 known | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Toads | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 storm | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Toads | det |
| 18 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Toads | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Toads | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 Toads | cc |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 or | punct |
| 22 | Glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Toads | compound |
| 23 | Toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hards | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Death | punct |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 storm | aux |
| 26 | storm | storm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 orchard | det |
| 28 | orchard | orchard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 storm | obj |
| 29 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 storm | obj |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 picked | punct |
| 31 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 » | acl |
| 32 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 34 chosen | punct |
| 33 | specially | specially | ADV | _ | 34 chosen | advmod |
| 34 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 picked | conj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 die | punct |
| 36 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 storm | parataxis |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 hards | punct |
| 38 | hards | hard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 die | obj |
| 39 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 40 fighters | punct |
| 40 | fighters | fighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 hards | conj |
| 41 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 give | nsubj |
| 42 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 43 give | advmod |
| 43 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 fighters | acl:relcl |
| 44 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 give | compound:prt |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 give | punct |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 storm | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick in a quote | participle | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | know in a quote | participle | a picked body of Toads not said here | as the Die hards or the Death Glory Toads | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as hard=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | storm in a quote | future | a picked body of Toads | the orchard | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pick | participle | » not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | choose | participle | specially property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | die | infinitive | hards and fighters | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not give up | present | fighters | vn resign-10.11-2 «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.
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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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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