--- title: Toad appeared «fresh and gay, remarking what a pleasant easy life it… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad appeared «fresh and gay, remarking what a pleasant easy life it was», after «the cares and worries and fatigues of housekeeping at home» (gay here = cheerful, its old meaning). Who acts: Toad, life. 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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 (Toad, life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.lesson:31 # text = Toad appeared «fresh and gay, remarking what a pleasant easy life it was», after «the cares and worries and fatigues of housekeeping at home» (gay here = cheerful, its old meaning). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 4 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 gay gay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 remarking remark VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 9 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 13 det:predet _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:acl:relcl 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 after after ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 cares care NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 worries worry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 fatigues fatigue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 housekeeping housekeeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 32 gay gay NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 33 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 34 = = PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 cheerful cheerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 appos _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 41 . . 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 | **appear** | past | Toad | | | | | fresh *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | Toad *not said here* | | | | after the cares and worries and fatigues of housekeeping at home | | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | | what pleasant easy life | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fatigue** *in a quote* | | | housekeeping at home | | | | | nom fatigue «state transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **mean** | | life | | | | | | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.lesson:31`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop/30/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop/34/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop/)