--- title: Toad flies through the air like a swallow and lands on his back in s… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad flies through the air like a swallow and lands on his back in soft grass; the gentlemen and the driver flounder in the pond in their long coats. Who acts: Toad, gentlemen. 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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, gentlemen), 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:7 # text = Toad flies through the air like a swallow and lands on his back in soft grass; the gentlemen and the driver flounder in the pond in their long coats. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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 through through ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 swallow swallow NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 lands land VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 gentlemen gentleman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 flounder flounder VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 coats coat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | present | Toad | | | the air | | like a swallow | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through air=Location | | 2 | **land** | present | Toad *not said here* | | | Bravo's back | | in soft grass | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on back=Destination | | 3 | **flounder** | present | the gentlemen and the driver | | | the pond | | in gentlemen's long coats | tree rules | 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:7`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, pa…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/64-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond/6/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, pa…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/64-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/64-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond/)