--- title: «The sob he had fought with so long refused to be beaten … poor Mole… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics description: «The sob he had fought with so long refused to be beaten … poor Mole at last gave up the struggle, and cried freely and helplessly and openly». Who acts: Rat, sob, poor 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 (Rat, sob, poor Mole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.lesson:16 # text = «The sob he had fought with so long refused to be beaten … poor Mole at last gave up the struggle, and cried freely and helplessly and openly». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sob sob NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 fought fight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 10 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 xcomp _ _ 14 … … PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 15 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl _ _ 19 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 struggle struggle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 freely freely ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 helplessly helplessly ADV RB _ 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 openly openly ADV RB _ 26 conj _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Rat | the sob *not said here* | | | | long *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sob=Co-Agent | | 2 | **refuse** *in a quote* | past | the sob | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **not** **beat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | the sob *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V» | | 4 | **give up** *in a quote* | past | poor Mole | the struggle | | last | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent struggle=Source | | 5 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | poor Mole *not said here* | | | | | freely *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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](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. 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