--- title: The Rat makes «large allowances» because Toad had been «on prison fa… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat makes «large allowances» because Toad had been «on prison fare» (prison food) for a long time (to make allowances = to forgive someone because of their situation). Who acts: Rat, Toad. 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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, Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:25 # text = The Rat makes «large allowances» because Toad had been «on prison fare» (prison food) for a long time (to make allowances = to forgive someone because of their situation). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 5 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 allowances allowance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 aux _ _ 12 « « VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound 15 fare fare NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 18 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:appos 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 28 allowances allowance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 = = PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 forgive forgive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 32 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 31 obj _ _ 33 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 36 case _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 33 fixed _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 situation situation NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | the Rat | large allowances | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent allowance=Product | | 2 | **«** | past · perfect · passive | Toad | | | fare » | time | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | | allowances | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset allowance=Product | | 4 | **forgive** | to-infinitive | | someone | | | | because allowances's situation | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=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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