--- title: «Toad sat straight down in the middle of the dusty road ... his face… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: «Toad sat straight down in the middle of the dusty road ... his face wore a placid satisfied expression, and at intervals he faintly murmured "Poop-poop!"» (placid = calm). Who acts: Toad, face. 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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, face), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.lesson:18 # text = «Toad sat straight down in the middle of the dusty road ... his face wore a placid satisfied expression, and at intervals he faintly murmured "Poop-poop!"» (placid = calm). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 straight straight ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 dusty dusty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 ... ... PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 placid placid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 satisfied satisfied ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 expression expression NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 intervals interval NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 faintly faintly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 murmured murmur VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 29 Poop poop NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 poop poop NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:parataxis 32 ! ! PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 36 placid placid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 parataxis _ _ 37 = = PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ _ 39 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 40 . . 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 | **sit** *in a quote* | past | Toad | | | the middle of the dusty road | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | | 2 | **wear** *in a quote* | past | Toad's face | a placid satisfied expression | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent expression=Source | | 3 | **murmur** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | face | Poop poop | | intervals | | faintly *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:032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.lesson:18`. **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 ×2, 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. 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