--- title: Toad has smashed his seventh motor-car; his coach-house is piled to… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad has smashed his seventh motor-car; his coach-house is piled to the roof with bits of cars; he has been in hospital three times and paid huge fines. Who acts: Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/2/) [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 IV, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/) / 2 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 2 Toad has smashed his seventh motor-car; his coach-house is piled to the roof with bits of cars; he has been in hospital three times and paid huge fines. **Who acts:** Toad · **What happens:** smash, pile, pay · **To what, where:** seventh motor car, coach house, huge fines This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs)» 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 (Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson:2 # text = Toad has smashed his seventh motor-car; his coach-house is piled to the roof with bits of cars; he has been in hospital three times and paid huge fines. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 smashed smash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 5 seventh seventh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 11 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 piled pile VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 fines fine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 . . 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 | **smash** | present · perfect | Toad | Toad's seventh motor car | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme | | 2 | **pile** | present · passive | | Toad's coach house | | | | to the roof; with bits of cars | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with bit=Theme | | 3 | **pay** | past | Toad *not said here* | huge fines | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Asset | 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:038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson:2`. **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, 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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