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title: Toad's father «discovered that passage—he didn't make it, of course;… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: Toad's father «discovered that passage—he didn't make it, of course; that was done hundreds of years before» — and «repaired it and cleaned it out». Who acts: father. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»), sentence 17

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Toad's father «discovered that passage—he didn't make it, of course; that was done hundreds of years before» — and «repaired it and cleaned it out».

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** discover, not make, done, repair, clean out · **To what, where:** passage, that

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»)» 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 (father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:17
# text = Toad's father «discovered that passage—he didn't make it, of course; that was done hundreds of years before» — and «repaired it and cleaned it out».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
5	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	_
16	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	fixed	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	done	done	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
21	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	before	before	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
26	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	repaired	repair	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** *in a quote* | past | Toad's father | that passage |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **make** *in a quote* | past · do-support | father | passage |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 3 | **done** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | that |  |  |  | hundreds of years *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 4 | **repair** *in a quote* | past | Toad's father *not said here* | passage |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **clean out** *in a quote* | past | Toad's father *not said here* | passage |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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**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, 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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