--- title: Halfway through, he hears it: «Poop-poop!» A motor-car pulls into th… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: Halfway through, he hears it: «Poop-poop!» A motor-car pulls into the inn-yard and its owners come in, chattering about their drive. Who acts: brain, motor car, owners. 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 dee --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 3 Halfway through, he hears it: «Poop-poop!» A motor-car pulls into the inn-yard and its owners come in, chattering about their drive. **Who acts:** brain, motor car, owners · **What happens:** hear, pull, come in, chatter, drive · **To what, where:** lunch 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 (brain, motor car, owners), 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:3 # text = Halfway through, he hears it: «Poop-poop!» A motor-car pulls into the inn-yard and its owners come in, chattering about their drive. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Halfway halfway ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 through through ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 Poop poop NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 poop poop NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 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 18 nsubj _ _ 18 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 inn inn NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 owners owner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 28 in in ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 chattering chatter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 31 about about ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 drive drive NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | brain | lunch | | | | Poop poop *obl*; through *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 2 | **pull** | present | a motor car | | | | | into the inn yard | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come in** | present | lunch's owners | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **chatter** | gerund | lunch's owners *not said here* | | | | | about owners's drive | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about drive=Topic | | 5 | **drive** | | owners *= owner* | | | | | | nom drive «act 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. 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