--- title: Toad «never minded being jawed by those who were his real friends» (… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad «never minded being jawed by those who were his real friends» (to jaw = to tell off at length) and could always «see the other side of the question». Who acts: Toad, those. 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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, those), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.lesson:27 # text = Toad «never minded being jawed by those who were his real friends» (to jaw = to tell off at length) and could always «see the other side of the question». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 minded mind VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 jawed jaw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 xcomp _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 6 obl _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 jaw jaw VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 18 = = PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 off off ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 27 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 29 advmod _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 29 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | past | Toad | | | | | | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **jaw** *in a quote* | gerund · passive | those | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | | Toad's real friends | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **jaw** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **tell off** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | length | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **see** *in a quote* | could | Toad *not said here* | the other side of the question | | | | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer side=Stimulus | 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:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.lesson:27`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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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