--- title: In the cold, dark, narrow passage he lags behind, gets frightened, r… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: In the cold, dark, narrow passage he lags behind, gets frightened, rushes forward and knocks Rat into Mole and Mole into Badger. Who acts: Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/5/) [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 XII,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/) / 5 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»), sentence 5 In the cold, dark, narrow passage he lags behind, gets frightened, rushes forward and knocks Rat into Mole and Mole into Badger. **Who acts:** Toad · **What happens:** lag behind, get, frighten, rush, knock · **To what, where:** cold dark narrow passage, Rat, Mole This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»)» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:5 # text = In the cold, dark, narrow passage he lags behind, gets frightened, rushes forward and knocks Rat into Mole and Mole into Badger. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 3 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 lags lag VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 behind behind ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 13 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 rushes rush VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 forward forward ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 knocks knock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lag behind** | present | Toad | the cold dark narrow passage *not said here* | | | | behind *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | present | | | | the cold dark narrow passage | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **frighten** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **rush** | present | | | | | | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **knock** | present | | Rat | | Mole and Mole | | into Badger | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent rat=Theme into mole=Destination | 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:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:5`. **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): 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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