--- title: Onion-sauce!» at the rabbits as a cheeky jeer; onion sauce was serve… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Onion-sauce!» at the rabbits as a cheeky jeer; onion sauce was served with roast rabbit, so it was a rude joke. Who acts: sauce. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sauce), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:18 # text = Onion-sauce!» at the rabbits as a cheeky jeer; onion sauce was served with roast rabbit, so it was a rude joke. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Onion onion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 sauce sauce NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rabbits rabbit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 9 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 cheeky cheeky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 jeer jeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 onion onion NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 sauce sauce NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 roast roast NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **serve** *in a quote* | past · passive | | onion sauce | | | | with roast rabbit | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with rabbit=Theme | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | sauce | a rude joke | | | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:18`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/17/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/)