--- title: Ever since, the weasels have been living in Toad Hall, lying in bed… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Ever since, the weasels have been living in Toad Hall, lying in bed half the day, eating Toad's food and singing rude songs about him. Who acts: weasels. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/6/) [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/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/) / 6 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat), sentence 6 Ever since, the weasels have been living in Toad Hall, lying in bed half the day, eating Toad's food and singing rude songs about him. **Who acts:** weasels · **What happens:** live, lie, eat, sing · **To what, where:** bed, food, rude songs This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat)» 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 (weasels), 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:6 # text = Ever since, the weasels have been living in Toad Hall, lying in bed half the day, eating Toad's food and singing rude songs about him. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 2 advmod _ _ 2 since since ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 weasels weasel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 aux _ _ 8 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 Hall Hall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 18 det:predet _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 20 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 21 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 26 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 about about ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **live** | present · perfect · progressive | the weasels | | | | | in Toad; since *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in toad=Location | | 2 | **lie** | gerund | the weasels *not said here* | | | bed | day | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | | 3 | **eat** | gerund | the weasels *not said here* | Toad's food | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the weasels *not said here* | rude songs | | | | about Toad | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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:6`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/5/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/)