The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!), sentence 18

«The hour has come!» — «What hour?» asks the Rat, glancing at the clock. — «Whose hour, you should rather say … Why, Toad's hour! … I said I would take him in hand as soon as the winter was well over».

Who acts: hour, Rat, you · What happens: come, ask, glance, say, take · To what, where: Toad, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» 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 (hour, Rat, you), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 say	parataxis
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 hour	punct
10	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	11 hour	det
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 hour	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 hour	punct
14	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 say	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Rat	det
16	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 asks	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 glancing	punct
18	glancing	glance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 asks	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 clock	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 clock	det
21	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 glancing	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 hour	punct
25	Whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	26 hour	nmod:poss
26	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 say	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 say	aux
30	rather	rather	ADV	_	31 say	advmod
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
32	…	…	PUNCT	_	33 Why	punct
33	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	31 say	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Why	punct
35	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 hour	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 Toad	case
37	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Why	nsubj
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 Why	punct
39	…	…	PUNCT	_	41 said	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 said	nsubj
41	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 say	parataxis
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 take	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 take	aux
44	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 said	ccomp
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 take	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 hand	case
47	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 take	obl
48	as	as	ADV	_	49 soon	advmod
49	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 take	advmod
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	55 over	mark
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 winter	det
52	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 over	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 »	cop
54	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	55 over	advmod
55	over	over	ADV	_	44 take	advcl
56	»	»	PUNCT	_	41 said	punct
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present · perfect	the hour			hour		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	present	the Rat					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	glance	gerund	the Rat not said here				at the clock	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at clock=Theme
4	say speech: assert in a quote	should	you					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Rat = rat					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	take in a quote	would	the Rat = rat	Toad	hand		soon property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in hand=Location

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:045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.lesson:18.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4. 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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