--- title: Toad opens one eye, then the other — and soon he is asking to sit in… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad opens one eye, then the other — and soon he is asking to sit in the front seat «for the fresh air», right beside the driver, as the old craving creeps over him again — and soon he will be begging to drive. Who acts: Toad, old craving. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toad, old craving), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:063-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song.lesson:10 # text = Toad opens one eye, then the other — and soon he is asking to sit in the front seat «for the fresh air», right beside the driver, as the old craving creeps over him again — and soon he will be begging to drive. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 063-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song.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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 9 — - PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 right right ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 beside beside ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 craving craving NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 creeps creep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 38 over over ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 40 again again ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 41 — - PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 43 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 47 advmod _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 45 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 46 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 47 aux _ _ 47 begging beg VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 xcomp _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | present | Toad | one eye | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · progressive | Toad | | | | | soon *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **sit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Toad *not said here* | | | the front seat | | for the fresh air; beside the driver | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location | | 4 | **creep** | present | the old craving | | | | again | over Toad | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Trajectory | | 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | future · progressive | Toad | | | | | soon *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **drive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:063-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song.lesson:10`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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