--- title: Toad dreams of roads running away from him, canals chasing him, a ba… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad dreams of roads running away from him, canals chasing him, a barge sailing into his dinner-party with his washing, and the secret passage twisting and sitting up on its end — but at last he is home and safe, and everybody tells him he is clever. Who acts: Toad, roads, canals, barge. 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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, roads, canals, barge), 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:9 # text = Toad dreams of roads running away from him, canals chasing him, a barge sailing into his dinner-party with his washing, and the secret passage twisting and sitting up on its end — but at last he is home and safe, and everybody tells him he is clever. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 dreams dream VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nmod 5 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 canals canal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 11 chasing chase VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 barge barge NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 16 sailing sail VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 19 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 washing washing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 twisting twist VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 conj _ _ 33 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 34 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 — - PUNCT : _ 53 punct _ _ 38 but but CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 obl _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 home home ADV RB _ 53 parataxis _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 conj _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 49 nsubj _ _ 49 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 conj _ _ 50 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 52 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 cop _ _ 53 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dream** | present | Toad | | | | | of roads and canals and a barge | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **run away** | gerund | roads and canals and a barge *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **chase** | gerund | canals and a barge *not said here* | Toad | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **sail** | gerund | a barge *not said here* | | | Toad's dinner party with Toad's washing | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into party=Trajectory | | 5 | **twist** | gerund | the secret passage | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **sit up** | gerund | the secret passage *not said here* | | | | on passage's end | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location | | 7 | **is** | present | Toad | | | | | home *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **be** | | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | everybody | | Toad | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 10 | **is** | present | Toad | | | last | | clever *property* | tree rules | | 11 | **wash** | | Toad | | | | | | nom washing «act transitive»: poss=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. 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