--- title: The crowd pelt him «with jeers, carrots, and popular catch-words»; s… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The crowd pelt him «with jeers, carrots, and popular catch-words»; school children enjoy «the sight of a gentleman in difficulties». Who acts: crowd, school children. 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 deepe --- [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/31/) [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/) / 31 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 31 The crowd pelt him «with jeers, carrots, and popular catch-words»; school children enjoy «the sight of a gentleman in difficulties». **Who acts:** crowd, school children · **What happens:** pelt, enjoy, sight · **To what, where:** writer, sight, gentleman 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 (crowd, school children), 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:31 # text = The crowd pelt him «with jeers, carrots, and popular catch-words»; school children enjoy «the sight of a gentleman in difficulties». # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pelt pelt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 jeers jeer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 carrots carrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 catch catch NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 enjoy enjoy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 gentleman gentleman NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 difficulties difficulty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pelt** | past | the crowd | | writer | | | with jeers and carrots and popular catch words | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with jeer=Theme | | 2 | **enjoy** | present | school children | the sight of a gentleman in difficulties | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | | 3 | **sight** *in a quote* | | | a gentleman in difficulties | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:31`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/30/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/32/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/)