--- title: They watch him splash past, rolling badly but rowing his hardest. — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics description: They watch him splash past, rolling badly but rowing his hardest. Who acts: sailing, Toad. 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 with its dependency --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # 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 8 They watch him splash past, rolling badly but rowing his hardest. **Who acts:** sailing, Toad · **What happens:** watch, splash, roll, row · **To what, where:** hardest 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 (sailing, Toad), 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:8 # text = They watch him splash past, rolling badly but rowing his hardest. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 watch watch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 splash splash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 5 past past ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 rolling roll VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 8 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 rowing row VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 hardest hard ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 obj _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | present | sailing | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **splash** | infinitive | Toad | | | | | past *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 3 | **roll** | gerund | Toad *not said here* | | | | | badly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **row** | gerund | Toad *not said here* | Toad's hardest | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hard=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:books:027-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad.lesson:8`. **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. **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…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/7/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/)