--- title: Some of the younger and livelier animals whispered to each other tha… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: Some of the younger and livelier animals whispered to each other that things were not so amusing as they used to be in the good old days. Who acts: things. 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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 (things), 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:25 # text = Some of the younger and livelier animals whispered to each other that things were not so amusing as they used to be in the good old days. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 livelier lively ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod 7 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 whispered whisper VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 8 obl _ _ 11 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 fixed _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 13 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 amusing amusing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 21 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | participle | | some younger animals *not said here* | each | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **is** | past | things | | | | | amusing *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **use** | past | things *= thing* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | things *= thing* *not said here* | | | | in the good old days | | tree rules | 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:25`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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