--- title: The cart: «Panels and windows smashed, axles hopelessly bent, one wh… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The cart: «Panels and windows smashed, axles hopelessly bent, one wheel off, sardine-tins scattered over the wide world, and the bird in the bird-cage sobbing pitifully». Who acts: bird cage. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/19/) [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 II, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/) / 19 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 19 The cart: «Panels and windows smashed, axles hopelessly bent, one wheel off, sardine-tins scattered over the wide world, and the bird in the bird-cage sobbing pitifully». **Who acts:** bird cage · **What happens:** scatter, sob · **To what, where:** sardine tins, wide world This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze)» 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 (bird cage), 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:19 # text = The cart: «Panels and windows smashed, axles hopelessly bent, one wheel off, sardine-tins scattered over the wide world, and the bird in the bird-cage sobbing pitifully». # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 5 Panels panel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 smashed smashed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 axles axle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 11 hopelessly hopelessly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 bent bent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 16 off off ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 sardine sardine NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 20 tins tin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 21 scattered scatter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 over over ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod 35 sobbing sob VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 36 pitifully pitifully ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 38 . . 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 | **scatter** *in a quote* | participle | | sardine tins *not said here* | | the wide world | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over world=Destination | | 2 | **sob** *in a quote* | gerund | the bird cage *not said here* | | | | | pitifully *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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:032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.lesson:19`. **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 II, p…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/18/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/)