--- title: They «instructed his housekeeper to feed him, undress him, and put h… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: They «instructed his housekeeper to feed him, undress him, and put him to bed», then sculled home to «their own cosy riverside parlour, to the Rat's great joy». Who acts: friends, Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and To --- [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/37/) [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/) / 37 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 37 They «instructed his housekeeper to feed him, undress him, and put him to bed», then sculled home to «their own cosy riverside parlour, to the Rat's great joy». **Who acts:** friends, Rat · **What happens:** instruct, feed, undress, put, scull, joy · **To what, where:** housekeeper, Toad 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 (friends, Rat), 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:37 # text = They «instructed his housekeeper to feed him, undress him, and put him to bed», then sculled home to «their own cosy riverside parlour, to the Rat's great joy». # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 instructed instruct VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 housekeeper housekeeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:iobj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 undress undress VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 17 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 then then ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 sculled scull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 home home ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 26 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 27 cosy cosy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 riverside riverside NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 parlour parlour NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:amod 36 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 38 . . 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 | **instruct** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | friends *= friend* | Toad's housekeeper | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent housekeeper=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **feed** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | friends *= friend* *not said here* | | Toad | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **undress** *in a quote* | infinitive | friends *= friend* *not said here* | Toad | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 4 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | friends *= friend* *not said here* | | Toad | | | to bed | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | | 5 | **scull** | past | friends *= friend* *not said here* | | | | then | to friends's own cosy riverside parlour; to the Rat's great joy; home *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **joy** *in a quote* | | the Rat | | | | | | nom joy «feeling 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:032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.lesson:37`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…, 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/36/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…, 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/38/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/)