--- title: The Rat knows the signs: Toad has a new craze, and for days he'll be… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat knows the signs: Toad has a new craze, and for days he'll be useless, like an animal walking in a happy dream. Who acts: Rat, Toad, animal. 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 --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 7 The Rat knows the signs: Toad has a new craze, and for days he'll be useless, like an animal walking in a happy dream. **Who acts:** Rat, Toad, animal · **What happens:** know, have, be, walk · **To what, where:** signs, new craze, happy dream 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 (Rat, Toad, animal), 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:7 # text = The Rat knows the signs: Toad has a new craze, and for days he'll be useless, like an animal walking in a happy dream. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 craze craze NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 19 useless useless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 acl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | the Rat | the signs | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | present | Toad | a new craze | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent craze=Patient | | 3 | **is** | future | Rat | | | | day | like a animal; useless *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **walk** | gerund | a animal *not said here* | | | a happy dream | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dream=Trajectory | 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:7`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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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