--- title: The stoats grumbled that the weasels would «stop comfortably in the… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: The stoats grumbled that the weasels would «stop comfortably in the banqueting-hall, and have feasting and toasts and songs», while they guarded «in the cold and the dark». Who acts: stoats, weasels. 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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 (stoats, weasels), 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:27 # text = The stoats grumbled that the weasels would «stop comfortably in the banqueting-hall, and have feasting and toasts and songs», while they guarded «in the cold and the dark». # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stoats stoat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grumbled grumble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 weasels weasel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 10 comfortably comfortably ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 banqueting banquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 feasting feasting NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 toasts toast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 while while SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 guarded guard VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grumble** *speech: other* | past | the stoats | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **stop** *in a quote* | would | the weasels | | | the banqueting hall | | comfortably *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hall=Location | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | the weasels *not said here* | feasting and toasts and songs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feasting=Patient | | 4 | **guard** | past | stoats *= stoat* | | | the cold and the dark | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: 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. 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