--- title: He decides to be on the safe side, carefully locks the door, and run… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: He decides to be on the safe side, carefully locks the door, and runs off to the village. Who acts: 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 (Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.lesson:7 # text = He decides to be on the safe side, carefully locks the door, and runs off to the village. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.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): no change 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 locks lock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 off off ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **decide** | present | Toad | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Toad *not said here* | | | the safe side | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lock** | present | Toad *not said here* | the door | | | | carefully *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | | 4 | **run off** | present | Toad *not said here* | | | | | to the village *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to village=Result | 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. 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