--- title: Three offences: «first, of stealing a valuable motor-car; secondly,… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: Three offences: «first, of stealing a valuable motor-car; secondly, of driving to the public danger; and, thirdly, of gross impertinence to the rural police» (impertinence = rude cheek). Who acts: Three offences. 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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 (Three offences), 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:26 # text = Three offences: «first, of stealing a valuable motor-car; secondly, of driving to the public danger; and, thirdly, of gross impertinence to the rural police» (impertinence = rude cheek). # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 offences offence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 2 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 of of SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 stealing steal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 valuable valuable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 secondly secondly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 of of SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 thirdly thirdly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 gross gross ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 impertinence impertinence NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 rural rural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 police police NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 36 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 37 punct _ _ 37 impertinence impertinence NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 parataxis _ _ 38 = = PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 cheek cheek NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **steal** *in a quote* | gerund | Three offences | a valuable motor car | | | | secondly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location car=Theme | | 2 | **drive** *in a quote* | gerund | Three offences *not said here* | | | the public danger | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to danger=Trajectory | 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:26`. **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): R6-punct-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. 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