--- title: Toad cleverly invites them to lunch «to talk it over», and talks so… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/) / 12 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.lesson:12 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 cleverly cleverly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 invites invite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 over over ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 wonderfully wonderfully ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 about about ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obj _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 27 somehow somehow ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 settled settle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl:relcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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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