The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 8
The moment the key turns, Toad hops lightly out of bed, puts on his smartest suit, fills his pockets with money from a drawer, ties his bed-sheets into a rope, climbs out of the window, and marches off the other way, whistling a merry tune.
Who acts: key, Toad · What happens: turn, hop, put, fill, tie, climb · To what, where: moment, bed, smartest suit, pockets, bed sheets, window
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 (key, 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 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hops | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 key | det |
| 4 | key | key | NOUN | _ | 5 turns | nsubj |
| 5 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 moment | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hops | punct |
| 7 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hops | nsubj |
| 8 | hops | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fills | conj |
| 9 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 8 hops | advmod |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hops | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 puts | punct |
| 14 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hops | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 suit | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 suit | nmod:poss |
| 17 | smartest | smart | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 suit | amod |
| 18 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 puts | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fills | punct |
| 20 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 22 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fills | obj | |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 money | case |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fills | obl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 drawer | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 drawer | det |
| 27 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 money | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ties | punct |
| 29 | ties | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fills | conj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 sheets | nmod:poss |
| 31 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sheets | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 sheets | punct |
| 33 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 ties | obj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 rope | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 rope | det |
| 36 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ties | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 climbs | punct |
| 38 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 ties | conj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 window | case |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 window | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 window | det |
| 42 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 climbs | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 marches | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 marches | cc |
| 45 | marches | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 climbs | conj |
| 46 | off | off | ADP | _ | 49 way | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 way | det |
| 48 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 way | amod |
| 49 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 marches | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 whistling | punct |
| 51 | whistling | whistle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 marches | advcl |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 tune | det |
| 53 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 tune | amod |
| 54 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 whistling | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | the key | the moment not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme moment=Result | ||||
| 2 | hop | present | Toad | bed | moment | lightly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out bed=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | put | present | Toad not said here | Toad's smartest suit | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on suit=Destination | ||||
| 4 | fill | present | Toad's pockets | with money from a drawer | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with money=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | tie | present | Toad's bed sheets | into a rope | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sheet=Patient into rope=Co-Patient | ||||
| 6 | climb | present | the window | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out window=Trajectory | |||||
| 7 | march | present | the other way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off way=Trajectory | |||||
| 8 | whistle | gerund | a merry tune | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Topic |
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.
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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-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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