The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!), sentence 4

He stands there very serious and says: «The hour has come! … Toad's hour!» He is keeping his winter promise.

Who acts: Badger, hour · What happens: stand, say, come, keep, promise · To what, where: winter promise · 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 (Badger, hour), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stands	nsubj
2	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stands	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 serious	advmod
5	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stands	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 says	cc
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stands	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
10	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hour	det
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 says	ccomp
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
15	…	…	PUNCT	_	18 hour	punct
16	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 hour	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Toad	case
18	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	parataxis
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 hour	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
21	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 keeping	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 keeping	aux
23	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stands	parataxis
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 promise	nmod:poss
25	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 promise	compound
26	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keeping	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stands	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	present	Badger		there	serious property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: express	present	Badger not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	present · perfect	the hour				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	keep	present · progressive	Badger	Badger's winter promise			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
5	promise		Badger				nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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, 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:4.

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, 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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