--- title: And Toad went from boats to caravans to motor-cars, prison, disguise… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: And Toad went from boats to caravans to motor-cars, prison, disguises and escapes, until friends who never gave up on him won his home back — and he learned, at least for one evening, to let others have the praise. Who acts: Toad, friends, others. 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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, friends, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:12 # text = And Toad went from boats to caravans to motor-cars, prison, disguises and escapes, until friends who never gave up on him won his home back — and he learned, at least for one evening, to let others have the praise. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 caravans caravan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 11 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 disguises disguise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 appos _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 escapes escape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 until until ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 on on SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nsubj 27 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod 31 — - PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 obl _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:obl 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 ccomp _ _ 44 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 45 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Toad | | | boats | until friends | to caravans; to motor cars and prison | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from boat=Initial\_Location to caravan=Destination | | 2 | **not** **give up** | past | friends | Toad | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **win back** | past | friends *not said here* | Toad's home | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Eventuality | | 4 | **learn** | past | Toad | | | least | evening | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **let** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | infinitive | others | the praise | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent praise=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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:12`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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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