--- title: Toad thinks «the social gulf between them was so very wide», because… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: T… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad thinks «the social gulf between them was so very wide», because he is rich and she is a gaoler's daughter: an old, snobbish idea that some people are «above» others, which is wrong. Who acts: Toad, social gulf, smell, old snobbish idea. 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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 (Toad, social gulf, smell, old snobbish idea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:052-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter.lesson:30 # text = Toad thinks «the social gulf between them was so very wide», because he is rich and she is a gaoler's daughter: an old, snobbish idea that some people are «above» others, which is wrong. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 052-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 social social ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 gulf gulf NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 7 between between ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det 23 gaoler gaoler NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 28 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 30 snobbish snobbish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 34 det _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl _ _ 36 « « PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 37 above above ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 39 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Toad | a old snobbish idea | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the social gulf between presses | | | | | wide *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | Toad | | | | | rich *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | smell | a gaoler's daughter | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | a old snobbish idea | | | | | wrong *property* | 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:052-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter.lesson:30`. **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, 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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