--- title: Toad runs off, then laughs till he has to sit down, and sings again:… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad runs off, then laughs till he has to sit down, and sings again: «Who was it steered it into a pond? Who acts: Toad, gentleman. 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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, gentleman), 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:8 # text = Toad runs off, then laughs till he has to sit down, and sings again: «Who was it steered it into a pond? # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 6 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 till till SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 down down ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 sings sing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 again again ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 17 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 19 Who who PRON WP PronType=Int 22 obj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 steered steer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: express - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run off** | present | Toad | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **laugh** | present | Toad *not said here* | | | | then | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | present | gentleman | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sit down** | to-infinitive | gentleman *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | Toad *not said here* | | | | again | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **steer** *in a quote* | past · passive | | pond | | a pond | | | 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:8`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, pa…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/64-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond/7/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, pa…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/64-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/64-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond/)