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title: Toad «eagerly scrambled up into the cab of the engine» (the cab = th… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: Toad «eagerly scrambled up into the cab of the engine» (the cab = the driver's place); «The guard waved his welcome flag» and the train moved out. Who acts: Toad, cab, guard, train. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and 
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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 5

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Toad «eagerly scrambled up into the cab of the engine» (the cab = the driver's place); «The guard waved his welcome flag» and the train moved out.

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**Who acts:** Toad, cab, guard, train · **What happens:** scramble up, place, wave, move out · **To what, where:** cab, welcome flag · **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, cab, guard, train), 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:5
# text = Toad «eagerly scrambled up into the cab of the engine» (the cab = the driver's place); «The guard waved his welcome flag» and the train moved out.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
3	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	scrambled	scramble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cab	cab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cab	cab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
23	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
24	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **scramble up** *in a quote* | past | Toad |  |  | the cab of the engine |  | eagerly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cab=Destination |
| 2 | **place** |  | the cab |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wave** *in a quote* | past | the guard | driver's welcome flag |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient |
| 4 | **move out** | past | the train |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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:5`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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