--- title: Old words: «implored» = begged; «heartiness» = warm eagerness; «make… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Old words: «implored» = begged; «heartiness» = warm eagerness; «make his acquaintance» = meet him; «mellowed» = softened and warm-coloured with age; «shipped his sculls» = pulled the oars into the boat. Who acts: Old words, Mole. 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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 (Old words, Mole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:34 # text = Old words: «implored» = begged; «heartiness» = warm eagerness; «make his acquaintance» = meet him; «mellowed» = softened and warm-coloured with age; «shipped his sculls» = pulled the oars into the boat. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 implored implore VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:acl:relcl 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 = = PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 begged beg VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 xcomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 11 heartiness heartiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 = = PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 eagerness eagerness NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 acquaintance acquaintance NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 22 = = PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 mellowed mellow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 29 = = PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 softened soften VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:compound 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 coloured colour VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 « « PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 39 shipped ship VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 sculls scull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 42 » » PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 43 = = PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 oars oar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 47 into into ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **implore** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | participle | | | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | Old words and heartiness and warm eagerness | Mole's acquaintance | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acquaintance=Product | | 4 | **meet** | infinitive | Old words and heartiness and warm eagerness *not said here* | Mole | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 5 | **mellow** *in a quote* | past | Old words and heartiness and warm eagerness *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **soften** | past | Old words and heartiness and warm eagerness *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **colour** | participle | Old words and heartiness and warm eagerness *not said here* | | | | with age | | tree rules | | 8 | **ship** *in a quote* | past | | Mole's sculls | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scull=Theme | | 9 | **pull** | past | Old words and heartiness and warm eagerness *not said here* | the oars | | the boat | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Theme | | 10 | **acquaint** *in a quote* | | Mole | | | | | | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=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](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:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:34`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-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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