--- title: The Otter starts a funny story about Toad — and stops mid-sentence:… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The Otter starts a funny story about Toad — and stops mid-sentence: a May-fly wobbles past, there's a swirl and a «cloop!», and both the May-fly and the Otter are gone. Who acts: Otter, May fly, swirl. 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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 (Otter, May fly, swirl), 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:9 # text = The Otter starts a funny story about Toad — and stops mid-sentence: a May-fly wobbles past, there's a swirl and a «cloop!», and both the May-fly and the Otter are gone. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 — - PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 mid-sentence mid-sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 fly fly NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 wobbles wobble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 past past ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 22 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 swirl swirl NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 cloop cloop NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 31 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 33 both both CCONJ CC _ 37 cc:preconj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 fly fly NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Otter otter NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 41 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | the Otter | a funny story | | | | about Toad | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality | | 2 | **stop** | present | the Otter *not said here* | mid-sentence | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **wobble** | present | a May fly | | | | | past *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **does** | present | a swirl and a cloop | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | the May fly and the Otter | | | | | gone *property* | 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:027-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad.lesson:9`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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