--- title: The stoats call «It will be your head next time, Toady!» and laugh «… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: The stoats call «It will be your head next time, Toady!» and laugh «till they nearly had two fits—that is, one fit each, of course» (a fit here = a sudden attack of laughing). Who acts: stoats, boat, that. 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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 (stoats, boat, that), 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:25 # text = The stoats call «It will be your head next time, Toady!» and laugh «till they nearly had two fits—that is, one fit each, of course» (a fit here = a sudden attack of laughing). # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stoats stoat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 5 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl:unmarked 10 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Toady toady NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 14 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 laugh laugh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 19 till till SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 fits fit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 — - PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 26 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 obl _ _ 30 fit fit ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 29 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 34 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 fixed _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 36 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 fit fit NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 39 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ _ 40 = = PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 attack attack NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 parataxis _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 laughing laughing NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 46 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: express* | present | the stoats | | | | time | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | boat | your head | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **laugh** | present | the stoats *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | past | stoats *= stoat* | two fits | | | | nearly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Patient | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | one | | | | fit each | tree rules | | 6 | **attack** | | | laughing | | | | | nom attack «act 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.lesson:25`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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. 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