--- title: Toad escapes from prison on a steam engine, dressed as a washerwoman… — Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, cara… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad escapes from prison on a steam engine, dressed as a washerwoman, with no money in his pocket, and pays a gipsy in shillings for breakfast. 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:history:083-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns.lesson:5 # text = Toad escapes from prison on a steam engine, dressed as a washerwoman, with no money in his pocket, and pays a gipsy in shillings for breakfast. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 083-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns.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 ×1 1 Toad toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 escapes escape VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 washerwoman washerwoman NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 17 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 gipsy gipsy NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 shillings shilling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **escape** | present | Toad | | | prison | | on a steam engine | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from prison=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **dress** | participle | Toad *not said here* | | | | | as a washerwoman; with no money in Toad's pocket | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pay** | present | Toad *not said here* | a gipsy | | shillings | | for breakfast | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent gipsy=Asset for breakfast=Theme | 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:history:083-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns.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): R7-rel-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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