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title: Afterwards Toad sends the gaoler's daughter a gold chain and locket… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Afterwards Toad sends the gaoler's daughter a gold chain and locket with pearls and a modest, grateful letter; the engine-driver is thanked and paid for his trouble; and, though Toad grumbles terribly, the barge-woman is paid for her horse. Who acts: Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the W
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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 6

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Afterwards Toad sends the gaoler's daughter a gold chain and locket with pearls and a modest, grateful letter; the engine-driver is thanked and paid for his trouble; and, though Toad grumbles terribly, the barge-woman is paid for her horse.

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**Who acts:** Toad · **What happens:** send, thank, pay, grumble, trouble · **To what, where:** gold chain, daughter, engine driver, barge woman

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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 (Toad), 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:6
# text = Afterwards Toad sends the gaoler's daughter a gold chain and locket with pearls and a modest, grateful letter; the engine-driver is thanked and paid for his trouble; and, though Toad grumbles terribly, the barge-woman is paid for her horse.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Toad	toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gaoler	gaoler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
10	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	locket	locket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	modest	modest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	thanked	thank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
38	grumbles	grumble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
39	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	barge	barge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	_
44	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **send** | present | Toad | a gold chain and locket with pearls and a modest grateful letter | the gaoler's daughter |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Destination chain=Theme |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present · passive |  | the engine driver |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for Toad's trouble | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for trouble=Theme |
| 4 | **grumble** *speech: other* | present | Toad |  |  |  |  | terribly *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pay** | present · passive |  | the barge woman |  |  |  | for woman's horse | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for horse=Theme |
| 6 | **trouble** |  | Toad |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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**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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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