--- title: Toad sent the gaoler's daughter «a handsome gold chain and locket se… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad sent the gaoler's daughter «a handsome gold chain and locket set with pearls» with a letter «that even the Badger admitted to be modest, grateful, and appreciative»; the engine-driver «was properly thanked and compensated» (paid back). 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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:28 # text = Toad sent the gaoler's daughter «a handsome gold chain and locket set with pearls» with a letter «that even the Badger admitted to be modest, grateful, and appreciative»; the engine-driver «was properly thanked and compensated» (paid back). # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 gaoler gaoler NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 iobj _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 locket locket NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 set set NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 pearls pearl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obj _ _ 23 even even ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 admitted admit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 29 modest modest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 grateful grateful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 appreciative appreciative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 40 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 « « PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux:pass _ _ 43 properly properly ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 thanked thank VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 compensated compensate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 conj _ _ 47 » » PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 48 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 49 punct _ _ 49 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 parataxis _ _ 50 back back ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 51 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 49 punct _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | Toad | a handsome gold chain and locket set with pearls | the gaoler's daughter | | | with a letter | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Destination chain=Theme | | 2 | **admit** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | the Badger | a letter | | | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Badger *not said here* | | | | | modest *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | | the Badger *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** *in a quote* | | the Badger *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | past · passive | | the engine driver | | | | properly *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **compensate** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **pay back** | participle | | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: 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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:28`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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