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title: Toad describes his house like an estate agent's advert: «an eligible… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: Toad describes his house like an estate agent's advert: «an eligible self-contained gentleman's residence very unique ... Who acts: Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast)» of the books course of 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast), sentence 21

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Toad describes his house like an estate agent's advert: «an eligible self-contained gentleman's residence very unique ...

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**Who acts:** Toad · **What happens:** describe, contain · **To what, where:** house

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast)» 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 (Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:052-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter.lesson:21
# text = Toad describes his house like an estate agent's advert: «an eligible self-contained gentleman's residence very unique ...
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 052-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter.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): no change
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	estate	estate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	agent	agent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
14	eligible	eligible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
15	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	unique	unique	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
23	...	...	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present | Toad | Toad's house |  |  |  | like a estate agent's advert | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 2 | **contain** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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**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:052-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter.lesson:21`.

**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): no change. **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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