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title: Thinking of Toad Hall, money and «praise and admiration at the recit… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thinking of Toad Hall, money and «praise and admiration at the recital of his adventures» (recital = telling), he «began to skip up and down and shout and sing». Who acts: Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the 
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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 6

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Thinking of Toad Hall, money and «praise and admiration at the recital of his adventures» (recital = telling), he «began to skip up and down and shout and sing».

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**Who acts:** Toad · **What happens:** think, begin, skip, shout, sing, recite · **To what, where:** adventures · **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), 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:6
# text = Thinking of Toad Hall, money and «praise and admiration at the recital of his adventures» (recital = telling), he «began to skip up and down and shout and sing».
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
9	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	recital	recital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	recital	recital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	telling	telling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
27	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	skip	skip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	up	up	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	down	down	ADV	RB	_	30	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
37	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	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 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Toad and money and praise at the recital of Toad's adventures and recital and telling and admiration | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | Toad |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **skip** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* *in a quote* | infinitive | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | infinitive | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **recite** *in a quote* |  |  | Toad's adventures and recital and telling |  |  |  |  | nom recital «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **adventure** *in a quote* |  | Toad |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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: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 ×1, 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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