--- title: Toad groans: «What did I want to go strutting about the country for,… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad groans: «What did I want to go strutting about the country for, singing conceited songs... instead of hiding till nightfall and slipping home quietly by back ways!» Who acts: Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most con --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/24/) [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/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/) / 24 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car), sentence 24 Toad groans: «What did I want to go strutting about the country for, singing conceited songs... instead of hiding till nightfall and slipping home quietly by back ways!» **Who acts:** Toad · **What happens:** groan, want, go, strut, sing, slip · **To what, where:** conceited songs · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car)» 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:063-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song.lesson:24 # text = Toad groans: «What did I want to go strutting about the country for, singing conceited songs... instead of hiding till nightfall and slipping home quietly by back ways!» # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 groans groan VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 5 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ _ 6 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 strutting strut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 18 conceited conceit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 ... ... PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 23 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:case 22 of of ADP IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 23 hiding hiding NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 24 till till ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 nightfall nightfall NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nmod 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 slipping slip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 28 home home ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 33 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: express - voice: character - polarity: neg - indirect: yes - teacher: changed form=wh, act=express, indirect=1, polarity=neg, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **groan** | present | Toad | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **want** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Toad | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **strut** *in a quote* | gerund | Toad *not said here* | | | | | about the country | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about country=Trajectory | | 5 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | Toad *not said here* | conceited songs | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 6 | **slip** *in a quote* | gerund | Toad *not said here* | | | | | by back ways; home, quietly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:24`. **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 ×3, 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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