--- title: At first Toad has wild fits: he lines up bedroom chairs like a motor… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: At first Toad has wild fits: he lines up bedroom chairs like a motor-car, crouches on the front one making engine noises, and ends by somersaulting into the wreck of chairs, quite satisfied. Who acts: first Toad, 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 (first Toad, Toad), 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:14 # text = At first Toad has wild fits: he lines up bedroom chairs like a motor-car, crouches on the front one making engine noises, and ends by somersaulting into the wreck of chairs, quite satisfied. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 fits fit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lines line VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 bedroom bedroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 chairs chair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 crouches crouch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:acl 25 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 noises noise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 30 by by SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 somersaulting somersault VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 wreck wreck NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 chairs chair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 quite quite ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 satisfied satisfied ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | first Toad | wild fits | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Patient | | 2 | **line up** | present | Toad | bedroom chairs | | | | like a motor car | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent chair=Destination | | 3 | **crouch** | present | Toad *not said here* | | | | | on the front one | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on one=Location | | 4 | **make** | gerund | Toad *not said here* | engine noises | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | | 5 | **end** | present | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **somersault** | gerund | Toad *not said here* | | | the wreck of chairs | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wreck=Destination | | 7 | **wreck** | | | chairs | | | | | nom wreck «state transitive»: of=patient | 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:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.lesson:14`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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