--- title: Toad wants to argue, but he catches sight of himself in the mirror,… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad wants to argue, but he catches sight of himself in the mirror, the rusty black bonnet perched over one eye, and goes upstairs quickly and humbly. Who acts: Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a te --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/) / 2 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad news), sentence 2 Toad wants to argue, but he catches sight of himself in the mirror, the rusty black bonnet perched over one eye, and goes upstairs quickly and humbly. **Who acts:** Toad · **What happens:** want, argue, catch, perch, go, sight · **To what, where:** sight, mirror, rusty black bonnet, one eye, Toad This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad news)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.lesson:2 # text = Toad wants to argue, but he catches sight of himself in the mirror, the rusty black bonnet perched over one eye, and goes upstairs quickly and humbly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 argue argue VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 nmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 rusty rusty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 bonnet bonnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 20 perched perch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 over over ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 27 upstairs upstairs ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 humbly humbly ADV RB _ 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:conj 31 . . 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 | **want** | present | Toad | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **catch** | present | Toad | sight of Toad | | the mirror | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | | 4 | **perch** | participle | | the rusty black bonnet *not said here* | | one eye | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over eye=Location | | 5 | **go** | present | Toad *not said here* | | | | | quickly, upstairs *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **sight** | | | Toad | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. 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