--- title: As he passes under the little bridge — Crash! — a great stone droppe… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: As he passes under the little bridge — Crash! — a great stone dropped by two stoats smashes through the bottom of the boat, and Toad has to swim for it while they laugh. Who acts: Toad, great stone, stoats. 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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, great stone, stoats), 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:10 # text = As he passes under the little bridge — Crash! — a great stone dropped by two stoats smashes through the bottom of the boat, and Toad has to swim for it while they laugh. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 4 under under ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 — - PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 11 — - PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 15 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 stoats stoat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 smashes smash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 20 through through ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 34 while while SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 laugh laugh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | present | Toad | | | the little bridge and Crash | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under bridge=Location | | 2 | **drop** | participle | | a great stone *not said here* | | | | by two stoats | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by stoat=Trajectory | | 3 | **smash** | present | a great stone | | | the bottom of the boat | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through bottom=Destination | | 4 | **have** | present | Toad | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **swim** | to-infinitive | Toad *not said here* | | | | | for boat | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **laugh** | present | stoats *= stoat* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:10`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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