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title: Toad sobs that he will go out into the dark night to share their har… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: Toad sobs that he will go out into the dark night to share their hardships — then hears the chink of dishes and cries «Supper's here at last, hooray!» Who acts: Toad, Supper. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»), sentence 3

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Toad sobs that he will go out into the dark night to share their hardships — then hears the chink of dishes and cries «Supper's here at last, hooray!»

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**Who acts:** Toad, Supper · **What happens:** sob, go out, share, hear, be · **To what, where:** hardships, chink, last · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»)» 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 (Toad, Supper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:3
# text = Toad sobs that he will go out into the dark night to share their hardships — then hears the chink of dishes and cries «Supper's here at last, hooray!»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sobs	sob	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hardships	hardship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	chink	chink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
27	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	parataxis	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	hooray	hooray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sob** | present | Toad |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go out** | future | Toad |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **share** | to-infinitive | Toad *not said here* | weathers's hardships |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | present | Toad *not said here* | the chink of dishes and cries |  | last | then |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Supper |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:3`.

**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, 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/).

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