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title: They haul him upstairs, kicking, and lock him in his bedroom, promis… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: They haul him upstairs, kicking, and lock him in his bedroom, promising it's all for his own good, while Toad shouts rude names through the keyhole. Who acts: friends, Toad, three. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked i
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 12

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They haul him upstairs, kicking, and lock him in his bedroom, promising it's all for his own good, while Toad shouts rude names through the keyhole.

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**Who acts:** friends, Toad, three · **What happens:** haul, kick, lock, promise, shout, be · **To what, where:** Badger, bedroom, keyhole

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom)» 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, Toad, three), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.lesson:12
# text = They haul him upstairs, kicking, and lock him in his bedroom, promising it's all for his own good, while Toad shouts rude names through the keyhole.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.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 ×3
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	haul	haul	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	lock	lock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
17	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:amod
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	Toad	toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
27	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haul** | present | friends *= friend* | Badger |  |  |  | upstairs *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **kick** | gerund | friends *= friend* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **lock** | present | friends *= friend* *not said here* | Badger |  | Badger's bedroom |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | friends *= friend* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Toad |  |  | the keyhole |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | three |  |  |  |  | for good rude names; all *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.lesson:12`.

**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 ×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/).

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