--- title: The horse's gallop soon became a trot, and the trot a steady walk; a… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The horse's gallop soon became a trot, and the trot a steady walk; at last it stopped on a common to nibble the grass. Who acts: gallop, trot, horse. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/23/) [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 X, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/) / 23 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»), sentence 23 The horse's gallop soon became a trot, and the trot a steady walk; at last it stopped on a common to nibble the grass. **Who acts:** gallop, trot, horse · **What happens:** become, walk, stop, nibble, gallop · **To what, where:** trot, last, grass This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)» 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 (gallop, trot, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.lesson:23 # text = The horse's gallop soon became a trot, and the trot a steady walk; at last it stopped on a common to nibble the grass. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 gallop gallop NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 6 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 trot trot NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 trot trot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 steady steady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 walk walk NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 common common NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 nibble nibble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | the horse's gallop | a trot and a steady walk | | | | soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **walk** | | the trot | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stop** | past | gallop | | | last | | on a common | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | | 4 | **nibble** | to-infinitive | gallop *not said here* | the grass | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient | | 5 | **gallop** | | the horse | | | | | | nom gallop «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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