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title: He leads them to the stable-yard, and there stands a brand-new horse… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: He leads them to the stable-yard, and there stands a brand-new horse-drawn caravan, canary-yellow with green trim and red wheels. Who acts: Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan)» of the books course of Mova's prima
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 5

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He leads them to the stable-yard, and there stands a brand-new horse-drawn caravan, canary-yellow with green trim and red wheels.

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**Who acts:** Toad · **What happens:** lead, stand, draw · **To what, where:** paws, brand new drawn caravan

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan)» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.lesson:5
# text = He leads them to the stable-yard, and there stands a brand-new horse-drawn caravan, canary-yellow with green trim and red wheels.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
14	brand	brand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	canary	canary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	trim	trim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | present | Toad | paws *= paw* |  |  |  | to the stable yard | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to yard=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | present | Toad *not said here* | a brand new drawn caravan |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer caravan=Stimulus |
| 3 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.lesson:5`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/).

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