--- title: Toad is out on the river, says the Otter, in a brand-new racing boat… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad is out on the river, says the Otter, in a brand-new racing boat with new clothes and new everything. Who acts: Toad, Otter. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat)» of the books course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/6/) [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 I, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/) / 6 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat), sentence 6 Toad is out on the river, says the Otter, in a brand-new racing boat with new clothes and new everything. **Who acts:** Toad, Otter · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** river, brand new racing boat · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat)» 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: who acts (Toad, Otter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:027-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad.lesson:6 # text = Toad is out on the river, says the Otter, in a brand-new racing boat with new clothes and new everything. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 027-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 out out ADV RB _ 8 parataxis _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 14 brand brand NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 racing racing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 18 nmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 21 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Toad | | | the river | | out *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Otter | | | a brand new racing boat with new clothes | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in boat=Manner | 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:027-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad.lesson:6`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/5/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/)