--- title: They walk five or six miles to the nearest town, Toad trailing after… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: They walk five or six miles to the nearest town, Toad trailing after them, thanking the Rat for bringing him on the trip where he saw that «swan, that sunbeam, that thunderbolt». Who acts: signs, Toad. 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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 (signs, Toad), 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:8 # text = They walk five or six miles to the nearest town, Toad trailing after them, thanking the Rat for bringing him on the trip where he saw that «swan, that sunbeam, that thunderbolt». # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 conj _ _ 6 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 7 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 10 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 trailing trail VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 advcl _ _ 14 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 thanking thank VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 advcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 bringing bring VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 advcl _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 advmod _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 that that DET DT PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 swan swan NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 34 sunbeam sunbeam NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:conj 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 37 thunderbolt thunderbolt NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | present | signs *= sign* | five miles | | | | to the nearest town *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to town=Result | | 2 | **trail** | gerund | Toad | | | | after signs *= sign* | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after they=Theme | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | signs *= sign* *not said here* | | the Rat | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme | | 4 | **bring** | gerund | signs *= sign* *not said here* | Rat | | the trip | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on trip=Destination | | 5 | **see** | past | Toad | that swan and that thunderbolt | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swan=Stimulus | 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:8`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/7/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/)