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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 (magistrates, crowd), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:0 # text = In «The Wind in the Willows» Toad is tried by magistrates, given twenty years and dragged to the deepest dungeon of an old castle, while the crowd pelts him with carrots. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.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, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 In in ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 4 case _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 3 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Wind wind PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Willows willow PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 tried try VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 magistrates magistrate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:agent _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 16 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 dragged drag VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 deepest deep ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 amod _ _ 23 dungeon dungeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 pelts pelt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 carrots carrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | present · passive | magistrates | Toad | | the Wind in the Willows | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **give** | participle | magistrates *not said here* | | | | year | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **drag** | participle | magistrates *not said here* | | | the deepest dungeon of a old castle | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to dungeon=Destination | | 4 | **pelt** | present | the crowd | | Toad | | | with carrots | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with carrot=Theme | 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:history:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:0`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Toad's Edwardian England: early motor…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/83-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns/19/) - next →: [Gaols, magistrates and old punishments…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/84-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/84-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908/)