The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book), sentence 2

Everyone cheers him and praises his courage, but Toad only murmurs «Not at all!» or «On the contrary!» When Otter tries to parade him round the room, Toad says gently that Badger was the mastermind, Mole and Rat did the hardest fighting, and he did «little or nothing».

Who acts: Everyone, Toad, Otter, Badger, Mole · What happens: cheer, praise, murmur, try, parade, say · To what, where: him, courage, all, Otter, room, mastermind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» 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 (Everyone, Toad, Otter, Badger), 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	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 cheers	nsubj
2	cheers	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cheers	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 praises	cc
5	praises	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cheers	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 courage	nmod:poss
7	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 praises	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 murmurs	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 murmurs	cc
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 murmurs	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 murmurs	advmod
12	murmurs	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 praises	conj
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 murmurs	punct
14	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 all	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	PRON	PronType=Tot	12 murmurs	obj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 all	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 all	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 contrary	cc
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 contrary	punct
21	On	on	ADP	_	23 contrary	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 contrary	det
23	contrary	contrary	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 all	conj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 murmurs	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 tries	punct
26	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 tries	advmod
27	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 tries	nsubj
28	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 says	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 parade	mark
30	parade	parade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 tries	xcomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 parade	obj
32	round	round	ADP	_	34 room	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 room	det
34	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 parade	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 says	punct
36	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 says	nsubj
37	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 praises	conj
38	gently	gently	ADV	_	37 says	advmod
39	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 Badger	det
40	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 mastermind	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 mastermind	cop
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 mastermind	det
43	mastermind	mastermind	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 says	ccomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 did	punct
45	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 did	nsubj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 Rat	cc
47	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Mole	conj
48	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 mastermind	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 fighting	det
50	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	51 fighting	amod
51	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 did	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 did	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 did	cc
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 did	nsubj
55	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 did	conj
56	«	«	PUNCT	_	57 little	punct
57	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 did	obj
58	or	or	CCONJ	_	59 nothing	cc
59	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	57 little	conj
60	»	»	PUNCT	_	57 little	punct
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cheers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cheer	present	Everyone	him = he			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	praise	present	Everyone not said here	his courage			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
3	murmur speech: other	present	Toad	all			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Topic
4	try	present	Otter				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	parade not said to happen	to-infinitive	Otter not said here	Otter	the room		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme round room=Trajectory
6	say speech: assert	present	Toad			gently property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	that Badger	the mastermind			tree rules
8	do	past	Mole and Rat	the hardest fighting			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fighting=Eventuality
9	do	past	Badger	little			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Eventuality

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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:2.

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): R1-cc-next ×4, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×5, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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