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title: They'll keep sleeping at Toad Hall: Toad may be brought back any mom… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: They'll keep sleeping at Toad Hall: Toad may be brought back any moment — on a stretcher, or between two policemen. Who acts: sheets. 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 primar
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 12

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They'll keep sleeping at Toad Hall: Toad may be brought back any moment — on a stretcher, or between two policemen.

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**Who acts:** sheets · **What happens:** keep, sleep, bring back · **To what, where:** Toad Hall, Toad, stretcher

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.lesson:12
# text = They'll keep sleeping at Toad Hall: Toad may be brought back any moment — on a stretcher, or between two policemen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.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	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stretcher	stretcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	policemen	policeman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **keep** | future | sheets *= sheet* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sleep** | gerund | sheets *= sheet* *not said here* |  |  | Toad Hall |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring back** | may · passive |  | Toad |  | a stretcher or two policemen | moment |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on stretcher=Destination |

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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:047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.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.

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

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