--- title: The party cry «Seize the Toad, the wicked animal who stole our motor… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The party cry «Seize the Toad, the wicked animal who stole our motor-car!»; the book says they «should have remembered to stop the motor-car somehow before playing any pranks of that sort». Who acts: party, wicked animal, cry, snatcher. 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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 (party, wicked animal, cry, snatcher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.lesson:27 # text = The party cry «Seize the Toad, the wicked animal who stole our motor-car!»; the book says they «should have remembered to stop the motor-car somehow before playing any pranks of that sort». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:outer _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Seize seize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:acl 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:appos 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 stole steal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 15 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 26 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux _ _ 28 remembered remember VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:ccomp 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 somehow somehow ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 36 before before SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 38 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 39 det _ _ 39 pranks prank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 42 det _ _ 42 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | | the party | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **seize** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the Toad | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Theme | | 3 | **steal** *in a quote* | past | the wicked animal | our motor car | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location car=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | cry | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **remember** *in a quote* | should · perfect | snatcher | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **stop** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | snatcher *not said here* | the motor car | | | | somehow *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality car=Eventuality | | 7 | **play** *in a quote* | gerund | snatcher *not said here* | any pranks of that sort | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prank=Theme | 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:064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.lesson:27`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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