--- title: Toad struts along the high road, miles from home, singing his own pr… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad struts along the high road, miles from home, singing his own praises: brain has beaten brute force! Who acts: Toad, brain. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» of the books course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/0/) [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 VI, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/) / 0 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 0 Toad struts along the high road, miles from home, singing his own praises: brain has beaten brute force! **Who acts:** Toad, brain · **What happens:** strut, sing, beat, praise · **To what, where:** miles, high road, own praises, brute force This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» 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, brain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:0 # text = Toad struts along the high road, miles from home, singing his own praises: brain has beaten brute force! # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.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 Toad toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 struts strut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 along along ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 praises praise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 20 brute brute ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 ! ! 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 | **strut** | present | Toad | miles from home | | the high road | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Toad *not said here* | Toad's own praises | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location praise=Theme | | 3 | **beat** | present · perfect | brain | brute force | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location force=Theme | | 4 | **praise** | | Toad | | | | | | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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 VI, p…, 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/38/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/)