The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 12

Toad cleverly invites them to lunch «to talk it over», and talks so wonderfully about the trip that by the end it's somehow settled.

Who acts: Toad, end · What happens: invite, talk over, talk, settle · To what, where: bunks, lunch

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan)» 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, end), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 invites	nsubj
2	cleverly	cleverly	ADV	_	3 invites	advmod
3	invites	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 invites	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 lunch	case
6	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invites	obl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 talk	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 talk	mark
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 invites	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 talk	obj
11	over	over	ADP	_	9 talk	compound:prt
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 talk	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 talks	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 talks	cc
15	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 invites	conj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 wonderfully	advmod
17	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	15 talks	advmod
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 trip	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trip	det
20	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 talks	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 settled	obj
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 end	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 end	det
24	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 settled	obl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 settled	nsubj:pass
26	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 settled	aux:pass
27	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	28 settled	advmod
28	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 trip	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 invites	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	invite	present	Toad	bunks = bunk	to lunch; cleverly property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	talk over in a quote	to-infinitive	Toad not said here	lunch		vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	talk	present	Toad not said here		about the trip; wonderfully property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about trip=Topic
4	settle	present · passive	the end	lunch	somehow property	tree rules

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, 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:030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.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): 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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