--- title: At the station they left Toad «in the second-class waiting-room, giv… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: At the station they left Toad «in the second-class waiting-room, giving a porter twopence to keep a strict eye on him», and left the horse at an inn stable. Who acts: friends. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/36/) [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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/) / 36 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 36 At the station they left Toad «in the second-class waiting-room, giving a porter twopence to keep a strict eye on him», and left the horse at an inn stable. **Who acts:** friends · **What happens:** leave, give, keep · **To what, where:** Toad, station, porter twopence, strict eye, horse, inn stable This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze)» 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 (friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.lesson:36 # text = At the station they left Toad «in the second-class waiting-room, giving a porter twopence to keep a strict eye on him», and left the horse at an inn stable. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 8 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 10 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 amod _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound 13 waiting waiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 15 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 porter porter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 twopence twopence NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 strict strict ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 inn inn NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 stable stable NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | friends *= friend* | Toad | | the station | | in the class waiting room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toad=Theme at station=Location | | 2 | **give** *in a quote* | gerund | friends *= friend* *not said here* | a porter twopence | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twopence=Theme | | 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | friends *= friend* *not said here* | a strict eye | | | | on Toad | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on he=Location | | 4 | **leave** | past | friends *= friend* *not said here* | the horse | | a inn stable | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme at stable=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](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:032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.lesson:36`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/35/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/37/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/)