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title: «As if in a dream … all sense of right and wrong, all fear of obviou… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: «As if in a dream … all sense of right and wrong, all fear of obvious consequences, seemed temporarily suspended.» He is «Toad the terror, the traffic-queller, the Lord of the lone trail». Who acts: sense, sort. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 24

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«As if in a dream … all sense of right and wrong, all fear of obvious consequences, seemed temporarily suspended.» He is «Toad the terror, the traffic-queller, the Lord of the lone trail».

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**Who acts:** sense, sort · **What happens:** seem, suspend, be, fear · **To what, where:** dream, Toad, obvious consequences

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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 (sense, sort), 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:24
# text = «As if in a dream … all sense of right and wrong, all fear of obvious consequences, seemed temporarily suspended.» He is «Toad the terror, the traffic-queller, the Lord of the lone trail».
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
2	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	advmod	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
7	…	…	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	obvious	obvious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	consequences	consequence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	temporarily	temporarily	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
26	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	_
36	queller	queller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
44	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** *in a quote* | past | all sense of right and all fear of obvious consequences |  |  | a dream |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **suspend** *in a quote* | participle | all sense of right and all fear of obvious consequences *not said here* |  |  |  |  | temporarily *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | sort | Toad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fear** *in a quote* |  |  | obvious consequences |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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