--- title: He pins the driver down with his elbow, goes full speed and shouts w… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: He pins the driver down with his elbow, goes full speed and shouts who he really is: «I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes!» The whole party jumps up to seize him — and nobody stops the car. Who acts: Bravo, Toad, car snatcher, nobody. 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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 (Bravo, Toad, car snatcher, nobody), 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:5 # text = He pins the driver down with his elbow, goes full speed and shouts who he really is: «I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes!» The whole party jumps up to seize him — and nobody stops the car. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pins pin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 down down ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 elbow elbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 shouts shout VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 obj _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 really really ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 47 punct _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 27 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 snatcher snatcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 breaker breaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 40 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 41 advmod _ _ 41 escapes escape VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ 43 » » PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 44 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 47 jumps jump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 48 up up ADP RP _ 47 compound:prt _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 seize seize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:xcomp 51 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ _ 52 — - PUNCT : _ 50 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 54 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 55 nsubj _ _ 55 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 conj _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obj _ _ 58 . . 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 | **pin down** | present | Bravo | the driver | | | | with Bravo's elbow | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent driver=Patient with elbow=Instrument | | 2 | **go** | present | Bravo *not said here* | full speed | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location speed=Theme | | 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Bravo *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Bravo | the Toad | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **escape** *in a quote* | present | the Toad | | | | | always *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **jump up** | present | the car snatcher and the prison breaker and the Toad | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **seize** | to-infinitive | the car snatcher and the prison breaker and the Toad *not said here* | Bravo | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 8 | **stop** | present | nobody | the car | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector car=Eventuality | 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:5`. **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, R7-rel-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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