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title: Toad «jumped, rolled down a short embankment, picked himself up unhu… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: Toad «jumped, rolled down a short embankment, picked himself up unhurt, scrambled into the wood and hid»; when the chase has passed he has «a hearty laugh — for the first time since he was thrown into prison». Who acts: Toad, chase. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, pa
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood), sentence 21

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Toad «jumped, rolled down a short embankment, picked himself up unhurt, scrambled into the wood and hid»; when the chase has passed he has «a hearty laugh — for the first time since he was thrown into prison».

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**Who acts:** Toad, chase · **What happens:** jump, roll down, pick up, scramble, hide, pass · **To what, where:** short embankment, Toad, wood, hearty laugh, chase, prison · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood)» 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, chase), 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:21
# text = Toad «jumped, rolled down a short embankment, picked himself up unhurt, scrambled into the wood and hid»; when the chase has passed he has «a hearty laugh — for the first time since he was thrown into prison».
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
3	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	embankment	embankment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	unhurt	unhurt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	scrambled	scramble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	hearty	hearty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	39	amod	_	_
39	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
40	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
46	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** *in a quote* | past | Toad |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **roll down** *in a quote* | past | Toad *not said here* | a short embankment |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embankment=Agent |
| 3 | **pick up** *in a quote* | past | Toad *not said here* | Toad |  |  |  | unhurt *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 4 | **scramble** *in a quote* | past | Toad *not said here* |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination |
| 5 | **hide** *in a quote* | past | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **pass** | present · perfect | the chase |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **have** | present | chase | a hearty laugh |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Patient |
| 8 | **throw** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | chase |  |  |  | into prison *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into prison=Result |

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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:055-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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