--- title: «Solid revenge was what he wanted, not cheap, windy, verbal triumphs… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics description: «Solid revenge was what he wanted, not cheap, windy, verbal triumphs.» He unties the tow-rope, jumps on the horse and gallops off; that is stealing the horse. Who acts: Solid revenge, Toad, that. 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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 (Solid revenge, Toad, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.lesson:21 # text = «Solid revenge was what he wanted, not cheap, windy, verbal triumphs.» He unties the tow-rope, jumps on the horse and gallops off; that is stealing the horse. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_ 2 Solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 revenge revenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 windy windy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 verbal verbal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 triumphs triumph NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 18 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 unties untie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 tow tow NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 jumps jump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 gallops gallop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 31 off off ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 33 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 stealing steal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Solid revenge | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **want** *in a quote* | past | Toad | | | | | cheap *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **untie** | present | Toad | the tow rope | | | | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient | | 4 | **jump** | present | Toad *not said here* | | | | | on the horse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory | | 5 | **gallop off** | present | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **steal** | present · progressive | that | the horse | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme | 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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