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title: Toad swims to the bank, the wet cotton gown dragging at him, and run… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Toad swims to the bank, the wet cotton gown dragging at him, and runs after the barge wanting revenge. Who acts: Toad, wet cotton gown. 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 t
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# 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 3

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Toad swims to the bank, the wet cotton gown dragging at him, and runs after the barge wanting revenge.

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**Who acts:** Toad, wet cotton gown · **What happens:** swim, drag, run, wanting · **To what, where:** bank, revenge

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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 (Toad, wet cotton gown), 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:3
# text = Toad swims to the bank, the wet cotton gown dragging at him, and runs after the barge wanting revenge.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swims	swim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	dragging	drag	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
16	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	barge	barge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	wanting	wanting	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl
21	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **swim** | present | Toad |  |  | the bank |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bank=Destination |
| 2 | **drag** | gerund | the wet cotton gown *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Toad | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at he=Location |
| 3 | **run** | present | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  | after the barge |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wanting** | gerund | Toad *not said here* | revenge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.lesson:3`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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