--- title: And «a picked body of Toads, known as the Die-hards, or the Death-or… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: And «a picked body of Toads, known as the Die-hards, or the Death-or-Glory Toads, will storm the orchard» (picked = specially chosen; die-hards = fighters who never give up). Who acts: picked body, fighters. 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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 (picked body, fighters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:24 # text = And «a picked body of Toads, known as the Die-hards, or the Death-or-Glory Toads, will storm the orchard» (picked = specially chosen; die-hards = fighters who never give up). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:discourse 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Toads toad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl 10 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 Die die NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 hards hard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 18 Death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 Glory glory NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Toads toad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:appos 24 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 storm storm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:det 28 orchard orchard NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:compound 29 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 31 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 32 = = PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 specially specially ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 die die VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 38 hards hard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 = = PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 fighters fighter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ _ 41 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 42 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:acl:relcl 44 up up ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ _ 45 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **pick** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **know** *in a quote* | participle | | a picked body of Toads *not said here* | | | | as the Die hards or the Death Glory Toads | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as hard=Attribute | | 3 | **storm** *in a quote* | future | a picked body of Toads | the orchard | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **pick** | participle | | » *not said here* | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **choose** | participle | | | | | | specially *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **die** | infinitive | | hards and fighters | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **give up** | present | fighters | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:069-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole.lesson:24`. **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 ×6, 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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