--- title: While Toad was in prison, the river-bankers stood up for him, but th… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: While Toad was in prison, the river-bankers stood up for him, but the Wild Wood animals said it served him right and he would never come back. Who acts: Toad, river bankers, Wood animals, prison. 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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, river bankers, Wood animals, prison), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.lesson:1 # text = While Toad was in prison, the river-bankers stood up for him, but the Wild Wood animals said it served him right and he would never come back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 bankers banker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 Wild Wild PROPN NNP _ 19 amod _ _ 19 Wood Wood PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 served serve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 right right ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 31 back back ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Toad | | | prison | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stand up** | past | the river bankers | | | | | for Toad | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Wood animals | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **serve** | past | prison | Toad | | | | right *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | | 5 | **not** **come back** | would | Toad | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.lesson:1`. **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): 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. 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