--- title: Then the Rat speaks seriously: Toad has been handcuffed, starved, ch… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Rat speaks seriously: Toad has been handcuffed, starved, chased, jeered at and flung into the water — and all because he must steal a motor-car. Who acts: Rat. 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 --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # 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 5 Then the Rat speaks seriously: Toad has been handcuffed, starved, chased, jeered at and flung into the water — and all because he must steal a motor-car. **Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** speak, handcuff, starve, chase, jeer, fling · **To what, where:** Toad, water, motor car · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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:5 # text = Then the Rat speaks seriously: Toad has been handcuffed, starved, chased, jeered at and flung into the water — and all because he must steal a motor-car. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 handcuffed handcuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 starved starve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 chased chase VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 jeered jeer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 16 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 flung fling VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 — - PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 all all ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 steal steal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | the Rat | | | | then | seriously *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **handcuff** | present · perfect · passive | | Toad | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **starve** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **chase** | participle | | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **jeer** | participle | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **fling** | participle | | | | the water | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into water=Destination | | 7 | **steal** | must | Rat | a motor car | | | | all *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location car=Theme | 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:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/4/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/)