--- title: «Won back by matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper han… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: «Won back by matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of sticks.» (valour = bravery; consummate = perfect; strategy = a clever plan) A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets)» of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall/) / 36 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets), sentence 36 «Won back by matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of sticks.» (valour = bravery; consummate = perfect; strategy = a clever plan) **What happens:** win back, handle · **To what, where:** sticks This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.lesson:36 # text = «Won back by matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of sticks.» (valour = bravery; consummate = perfect; strategy = a clever plan) # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 back back ADV RB _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 matchless matchless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 valour valour NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 consummate consummate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 strategy strategy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 handling handling NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 20 valour valour NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 = = SYM SYM _ 20 punct _ _ 22 bravery bravery NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 consummate consummate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 parataxis _ _ 25 = = SYM SYM _ 28 punct _ _ 26 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 strategy strategy NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 dep _ _ 29 = = SYM SYM _ 32 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win back** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | by matchless valour and consummate strategy and a proper handling of sticks | tree rules | | 2 | **handle** *in a quote* | | | sticks | | | | | nom handling «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.lesson:36`. **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, 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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