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title: «The hour has come!» — «What hour?» asks the Rat, glancing at the cl… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: «The hour has come!» — «What hour?» asks the Rat, glancing at the clock. — «Whose hour, you should rather say … Why, Toad's hour! … I said I would take him in hand as soon as the winter was well over». Who acts: hour, Rat, you. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: M
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!), sentence 18

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«The hour has come!» — «What hour?» asks the Rat, glancing at the clock. — «Whose hour, you should rather say … Why, Toad's hour! … I said I would take him in hand as soon as the winter was well over».

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**Who acts:** hour, Rat, you · **What happens:** come, ask, glance, say, take · **To what, where:** Toad, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (hour, Rat, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.lesson:18
# text = «The hour has come!» — «What hour?» asks the Rat, glancing at the clock. — «Whose hour, you should rather say … Why, Toad's hour! … I said I would take him in hand as soon as the winter was well over».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.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 ×4
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	parataxis	_	_
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
10	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	11	det	_	_
11	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
14	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	glancing	glance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
32	…	…	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	parataxis	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
39	…	…	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	ccomp	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	as	as	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	44	advmod	_	_
50	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
54	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	55	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=56:advmod
55	over	over	ADV	RB	_	44	advcl	_	_
56	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the hour |  |  |  | hour |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **glance** | gerund | the Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the clock | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at clock=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | should | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the Rat *= rat* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **take** *in a quote* | would | the Rat *= rat* | Toad |  | hand |  | soon *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in hand=Location |

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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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**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:045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.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 ×4. **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/).

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