--- title: Toad tries «Me stop indoors and write a lot of rotten letters on a j… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad tries «Me stop indoors and write a lot of rotten letters on a jolly morning like this...» then turns: «I sacrifice this fair morning on the altar of duty and friendship!» Who acts: Toad, Badger. 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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, Badger), 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:21 # text = Toad tries «Me stop indoors and write a lot of rotten letters on a jolly morning like this...» then turns: «I sacrifice this fair morning on the altar of duty and friendship!» # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 4 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 indoors indoors ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 rotten rotten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 jolly jolly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 nmod _ _ 20 ... ... PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 23 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 sacrifice sacrifice VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj 28 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 29 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 friendship friendship NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:conj 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | present | Toad | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | Badger | | | | | indoors *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **write** *in a quote* | infinitive | Badger *not said here* | a lot of rotten letters | | | morning | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | | 4 | **turn** | present | Toad *not said here* | | | | then | | tree rules | | 5 | **sacrifice** *in a quote* | present | Badger | | | the altar of duty and friendship | morning | | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:21`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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