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title: The Rat lists what Toad has been: «handcuffed, imprisoned, starved,… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rat lists what Toad has been: «handcuffed, imprisoned, starved, chased, terrified out of your life, insulted, jeered at, and ignominiously flung into the water—by a woman, too!» (ignominiously = shamefully) Who acts: Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Li
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# 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 22

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The Rat lists what Toad has been: «handcuffed, imprisoned, starved, chased, terrified out of your life, insulted, jeered at, and ignominiously flung into the water—by a woman, too!» (ignominiously = shamefully)

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**Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** list, handcuff, imprison, starve, chase, insult · **To what, where:** Toad, water

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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 (Rat), 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:22
# text = The Rat lists what Toad has been: «handcuffed, imprisoned, starved, chased, terrified out of your life, insulted, jeered at, and ignominiously flung into the water—by a woman, too!» (ignominiously = shamefully)
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lists	list	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
5	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	handcuffed	handcuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	starved	starve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	insulted	insult	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	jeered	jeer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	ignominiously	ignominiously	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	flung	fling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	too	too	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
42	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
43	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	46	punct	_	_
44	ignominiously	ignominiously	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
45	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	46	punct	_	_
46	shamefully	shamefully	ADV	RB	_	3	parataxis	_	_
47	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	46	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **list** | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **handcuff** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | Toad |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **imprison** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **starve** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **chase** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **insult** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **jeer** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **fling** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  | the water |  | by a woman; ignominiously *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into water=Destination |

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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.

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**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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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