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title: In front of the Hall stands a huge shiny red car, and down the steps… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: In front of the Hall stands a huge shiny red car, and down the steps swaggers Toad in goggles, cap, gaiters, gauntlets and an enormous overcoat: «Come on, you fellows, for a jolly — a jolly — er — jolly…» His words fade when he sees their stern faces. Who acts: Toad, you, words. A sentence of the le
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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 7

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In front of the Hall stands a huge shiny red car, and down the steps swaggers Toad in goggles, cap, gaiters, gauntlets and an enormous overcoat: «Come on, you fellows, for a jolly — a jolly — er — jolly…» His words fade when he sees their stern faces.

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**Who acts:** Toad, you, words · **What happens:** stand, swagger, come on, fellow, fade, see · **To what, where:** huge shiny red car, front, stern faces · **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 (Toad, you, words), 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:7
# text = In front of the Hall stands a huge shiny red car, and down the steps swaggers Toad in goggles, cap, gaiters, gauntlets and an enormous overcoat: «Come on, you fellows, for a jolly — a jolly — er — jolly…» His words fade when he sees their stern faces.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
17	swaggers	swagger	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	goggles	goggle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	gaiters	gaiter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	gauntlets	gauntlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	overcoat	overcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
32	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
34	on	on	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	vocative	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	jolly	jolly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	parataxis	_	_
42	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	jolly	jolly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
45	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	49	reparandum	_	_
47	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
48	jolly	jolly	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	…	…	ADV	GW	Typo=Yes	6	advmod	_	_
50	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
51	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
53	fade	fade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
54	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	56	mark	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	advcl	_	_
57	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
58	stern	stern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	_
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present |  | a huge shiny red car |  | front of the Hall |  | … *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **swagger** | present | Toad in goggles and cap and gaiters and gauntlets and a enormous overcoat |  |  |  |  | down the steps | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down step=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come on** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fellow** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fade** | present | Toad's words |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **see** | present | Toad | words's stern faces |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
| 7 | **word** |  | Toad |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:7`.

**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, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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