--- title: By bedtime he is his old cheerful, self-satisfied self, sings a litt… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: T… · tree and pragmatics description: By bedtime he is his old cheerful, self-satisfied self, sings a little song and sleeps well; as the days pass the girl feels sorry for him, and vain Toad thinks she admires him enormously. Who acts: Toad, days, girl, vain Toad. 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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, days, girl, vain 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:6 # text = By bedtime he is his old cheerful, self-satisfied self, sings a little song and sleeps well; as the days pass the girl feels sorry for him, and vain Toad thinks she admires him enormously. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 By by ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 bedtime bedtime NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 7 cheerful cheerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 satisfied satisfied ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 sings sing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 sleeps sleep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 pass pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 29 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:obl 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 36 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:parataxis 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 admires admire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:conj 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 enormously enormously ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Toad | Toad's old cheerful satisfied self | | | | by bedtime | tree rules | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | Toad *not said here* | a little song | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 3 | **sleep** | present | Toad *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **pass** | present | the days | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | present | the girl | | | | | sorry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | present | vain Toad | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **admire** | present | girl | Toad | | | | enormously *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | 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:052-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter.lesson:6`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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. 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