--- title: The stoats, already jumpy from his morning trick, heard the uproar;… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: The stoats, already jumpy from his morning trick, heard the uproar; some threw down their guns and ran, and the rest thought the weasels had betrayed them. Who acts: stoats, some, rest, 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, some, rest, weasels), 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:9 # text = The stoats, already jumpy from his morning trick, heard the uproar; some threw down their guns and ran, and the rest thought the weasels had betrayed them. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stoats stoat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 already already ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 jumpy jumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 appos _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 uproar uproar NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 16 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 17 down down ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 guns gun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 weasels weasel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 betrayed betray VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 ccomp _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | the stoats | the uproar | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer uproar=Stimulus | | 2 | **throw down** | past | some | stoats's guns | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | | 3 | **run** | past | some *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the rest | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **betray** | past · perfect | the weasels | guns *= gun* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **trick** | | Mole | | | | | | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=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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