--- title: Everyone cheers him and praises his courage, but Toad only murmurs «… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: Everyone cheers him and praises his courage, but Toad only murmurs «Not at all!» or «On the contrary!» When Otter tries to parade him round the room, Toad says gently that Badger was the mastermind, Mole and Rat did the hardest fighting, and he did «little or nothing». 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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 (Everyone, Toad, Otter, Badger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:2 # text = Everyone cheers him and praises his courage, but Toad only murmurs «Not at all!» or «On the contrary!» When Otter tries to parade him round the room, Toad says gently that Badger was the mastermind, Mole and Rat did the hardest fighting, and he did «little or nothing». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.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): R1-cc-next ×4, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×5, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 Everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 2 nsubj _ _ 2 cheers cheer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 praises praise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 10 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 murmurs murmur VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 14 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 all all PRON DT PronType=Tot 12 obj _ _ 17 ! ! PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 21 On on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 contrary contrary NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 26 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 27 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 parade parade VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 round round ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 37 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 38 gently gently ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 det _ _ 40 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=43:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 mastermind mastermind NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 ccomp _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct 45 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=48:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 conj _ _ 48 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 hardest hard ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 51 amod _ _ 51 fighting fighting NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=48:cc 54 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 55 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 conj _ _ 56 « « PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=55:punct 57 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 obj _ _ 58 or or CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=57:cc 59 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 57 conj _ _ 60 » » PUNCT '' _ 57 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=55:punct 61 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cheer** | present | Everyone | him *= he* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | | 2 | **praise** | present | Everyone *not said here* | his courage | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | | 3 | **murmur** *speech: other* | present | Toad | all | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Topic | | 4 | **try** | present | Otter | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **parade** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Otter *not said here* | Otter | | the room | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme round room=Trajectory | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Toad | | | | | gently *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | past | that Badger | the mastermind | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **do** | past | Mole and Rat | the hardest fighting | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fighting=Eventuality | | 9 | **do** | past | Badger | little | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Eventuality | 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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:2`. **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): R1-cc-next ×4, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×5, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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