--- title: Toad flies «with the strong upward rush and delicate curve of a swal… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad flies «with the strong upward rush and delicate curve of a swallow» and wonders if he will turn into «a Toad-bird», then lands on his back in soft meadow grass. Who acts: Toad, cry. 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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, cry), 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:29 # text = Toad flies «with the strong upward rush and delicate curve of a swallow» and wonders if he will turn into «a Toad-bird», then lands on his back in soft meadow grass. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 4 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 upward upward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 rush rush NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 delicate delicate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 curve curve NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 swallow swallow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 wonders wonder VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 Toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 31 lands land VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | present | Toad | | | | | with the strong upward rush and delicate curve of a swallow | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **turn** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | cry | | | | | into a Toad bird *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bird=Result | | 4 | **land** | present | Toad *not said here* | | | cry's back | then | in soft meadow grass | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on back=Destination | 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:29`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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