The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 18

The Rat «incautiously» (carelessly) tells Toad that the Mole and the Badger «will be out till luncheon time» — so Toad knows he'll be alone with the Rat.

Who acts: Rat, Mole, Toad · What happens: tell, be, know · To what, where: Toad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets)» 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 (Rat, Mole, Toad), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rat	det
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tells	nsubj
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 incautiously	punct
4	incautiously	incautiously	ADV	_	9 tells	advmod
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 incautiously	punct
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 carelessly	punct
7	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	_	10 Toad	advmod
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 carelessly	punct
9	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tells	obj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 out	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Mole	det
13	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 out	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Badger	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Badger	det
16	Badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Mole	conj
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 out	punct
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 out	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 out	cop
20	out	out	ADV	_	9 tells	ccomp
21	till	till	ADP	_	23 time	case
22	luncheon	luncheon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 time	compound
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 out	obl
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 out	punct
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	28 knows	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 knows	advmod
27	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 knows	nsubj
28	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tells	conj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 alone	nsubj
30	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 alone	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 alone	cop
32	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 knows	ccomp
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 Rat	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Rat	det
35	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 alone	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the Rat	Toad		incautiously property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toad=Recipient
2	is in a quote	future	the Mole and the Badger		time	out property	tree rules
3	know	present	Toad				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	future	Toad			with the Rat; alone 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:047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.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 ×3. 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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