--- title: Toad lies: he has «Any amount of 'em» (children) at home, «playing w… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: T… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad lies: he has «Any amount of 'em» (children) at home, «playing with matches — and upsetting lamps, the little innocents!» Who acts: Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver)» of the books course o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/22/) [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 VIII,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/) / 22 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver), sentence 22 Toad lies: he has «Any amount of 'em» (children) at home, «playing with matches — and upsetting lamps, the little innocents!» **Who acts:** Toad · **What happens:** lie, have, play, amount · **To what, where:** Toad, home, 'em This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver)» 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:054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.lesson:22 # text = Toad lies: he has «Any amount of 'em» (children) at home, «playing with matches — and upsetting lamps, the little innocents!» # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 Any any DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 8 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 'em they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nmod _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 matches match NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 — - PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 upsetting upsetting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 lamps lamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 innocents innocent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | Toad | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | present · passive | | Toad | | home | | children *obl* | tree rules | | 3 | **play** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | with matches and upsetting lamps and the little innocents | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with match=Theme | | 4 | **amount** *in a quote* | | | 'em *= they* | | | | | nom amount «possession 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:054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.lesson:22`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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