--- title: Weasels dive under the tables and leap for the windows; ferrets rush… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: Weasels dive under the tables and leap for the windows; ferrets rush for the fireplace and get stuck in the chimney; chairs tip over and china crashes. Who acts: Weasels, ferrets, chairs, china. 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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 (Weasels, ferrets, chairs, china), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.lesson:1 # text = Weasels dive under the tables and leap for the windows; ferrets rush for the fireplace and get stuck in the chimney; chairs tip over and china crashes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Weasels weasel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 dive dive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 under under ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 tables table NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 leap leap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 ferrets ferret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 rush rush VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fireplace fireplace NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 19 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 chairs chair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 tip tip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 over over ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 china china NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:compound 29 crashes crash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **dive** | present | Weasels | | | the tables | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under table=Location | | 2 | **leap** | present | Weasels *not said here* | | | | | for the windows | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **rush** | present | ferrets | | | | | for the fireplace | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get** | infinitive | Weasels *not said here* | | | | | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **tip over** | present | chairs | | | | | over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **crash** | present | china | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.lesson:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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