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title: Next morning Toad oversleeps again and finds only egg-shells, cold l… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning Toad oversleeps again and finds only egg-shells, cold leathery toast and a coffee-pot three-quarters empty — in his own house! Who acts: Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one li
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 0

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Next morning Toad oversleeps again and finds only egg-shells, cold leathery toast and a coffee-pot three-quarters empty — in his own house!

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**Who acts:** Toad · **What happens:** oversleep, find · **To what, where:** egg shells, own house

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» 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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:0
# text = Next morning Toad oversleeps again and finds only egg-shells, cold leathery toast and a coffee-pot three-quarters empty — in his own house!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.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	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	oversleeps	oversleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	leathery	leathery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
25	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oversleep** | present | Toad |  |  |  | again; morning |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present | Toad *not said here* | egg shells and cold leathery toast and a coffee pot |  | Toad's own house |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Topic |

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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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:0`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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