--- title: In every invitation he boasts about how he flattened the Chief Wease… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: In every invitation he boasts about how he flattened the Chief Weasel, and he adds a programme for the evening: SPEECH BY TOAD, ADDRESS BY TOAD, SONG BY TOAD, OTHER COMPOSITIONS BY TOAD. Who acts: Toad. 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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), 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:5 # text = In every invitation he boasts about how he flattened the Chief Weasel, and he adds a programme for the evening: SPEECH BY TOAD, ADDRESS BY TOAD, SONG BY TOAD, OTHER COMPOSITIONS BY TOAD. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 3 invitation invitation NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 boasts boast VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 about about SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 flattened flatten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Weasel weasel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 programme programme NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 23 SPEECH speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 24 BY by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 TOAD toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 ADDRESS address NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 28 BY by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 TOAD toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 SONG song NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 32 BY by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 TOAD toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 OTHER other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 COMPOSITIONS composition NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 37 BY by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 TOAD toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **boast** *speech: other* | present | Toad | | | every invitation | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **flatten** | past | Toad | the Chief Weasel | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weasel=Patient | | 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Toad | a programme | | | for the evening | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent programme=Patient | | 4 | **speak** | | TOAD | | | | | | nom speech «communication transitive»: by=agent | | 5 | **address** | | TOAD | | | | | | nom address «communication transitive»: by=agent | | 6 | **sing** | | TOAD | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: by=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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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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