--- title: «I wonder if this sort of car starts easily?» Next moment, as if in… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: «I wonder if this sort of car starts easily?» Next moment, as if in a dream, he is in the driver's seat roaring out onto the open road — Toad the Terror, Lord of the lone trail! Who acts: Toad, sort, seat. 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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 (Toad, sort, seat), 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:7 # text = «I wonder if this sort of car starts easily?» Next moment, as if in a dream, he is in the driver's seat roaring out onto the open road — Toad the Terror, 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wonder wonder VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:mark 5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound 9 starts start NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 easily easily ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 13 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 29 roaring roar VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 onto onto ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 — - PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 36 Toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 appos _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 appos _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 lone lone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 trail trail NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 45 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | Toad | | | | | easily *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | present | sort | | | the driver's seat | | in a dream | tree rules | | 3 | **roar out** | gerund | the driver's seat *not said here* | | | the open road | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent onto road=Recipient | | 4 | **sort** *in a quote* | | | starts | | | | | nom sort «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:7`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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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