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title: «He was indeed an altered Toad!» (altered = changed) — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: «He was indeed an altered Toad!» (altered = changed) Who acts: Badger. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book), sentence 27

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«He was indeed an altered Toad!» (altered = changed)

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**Who acts:** Badger · **What happens:** alter, be, change · **To what, where:** altered Toad · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» 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 (Badger), 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:27
# text = «He was indeed an altered Toad!» (altered = changed)
# 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): no change
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	altered	alter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	altered	alter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
12	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **alter** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Badger | a altered Toad |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **alter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **change** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:27`.

**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): no change. **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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