--- title: The train rattles off with Toad in the engine's cab; fields, cows an… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: T… · tree and pragmatics description: The train rattles off with Toad in the engine's cab; fields, cows and hedges fly past, and he skips and sings, dreaming of supper, money and praise at Toad Hall — the strangest washerwoman the driver has ever seen. Who acts: train, fields, Toad, driver. 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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 (train, fields, Toad, driver), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:055-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel.lesson:0 # text = The train rattles off with Toad in the engine's cab; fields, cows and hedges fly past, and he skips and sings, dreaming of supper, money and praise at Toad Hall — the strangest washerwoman the driver has ever seen. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 055-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel.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): R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rattles rattle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 cab cab NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 hedges hedge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 19 past past ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 skips skip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 sings sing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 dreaming dream VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 36 Hall Hall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 flat _ _ 37 — - PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 strangest strange ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 40 amod _ _ 40 washerwoman washerwoman NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 43 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 45 advmod _ _ 45 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 acl:relcl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rattle off** | present | the train | | | | | with Toad in the engine's cab | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fly** | present | fields and cows and hedges | | | | | past *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **skip** | present | Toad | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **dream** | gerund | Toad *not said here* | | | | | of supper and money and praise; at Toad | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **see** | present · perfect | the driver | the strangest washerwoman *not said here* | | | ever | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer washerwoman=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:055-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×4, 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 VIII,…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/22/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII,…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/55-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/55-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel/)