--- title: He tries coaxing it, slapping it, punching it; his back aches, his p… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: He tries coaxing it, slapping it, punching it; his back aches, his proud paws go crinkly, he loses the soap for the fiftieth time. Who acts: Toad, back, proud paws. 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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, back, proud paws), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.lesson:13 # text = He tries coaxing it, slapping it, punching it; his back aches, his proud paws go crinkly, he loses the soap for the fiftieth time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 coaxing coax VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 slapping slap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 punching punch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 aches ache VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 crinkly crinkly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 fiftieth fiftieth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 . . 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 | **try** | present | Toad | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **coax** *not said to happen* | gerund | Toad *not said here* | heap | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **slap** | gerund | Toad *not said here* | heap | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **punch** | gerund | Toad *not said here* | heap | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **ache** | present | Toad's back | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **go** | present | Toad's proud paws | | | | | crinkly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **lose** | present | Toad | the soap | | | time | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soap=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](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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