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title: The moment the key turns, Toad hops lightly out of bed, puts on his… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
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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 8

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The moment the key turns, Toad hops lightly out of bed, puts on his smartest suit, fills his pockets with money from a drawer, ties his bed-sheets into a rope, climbs out of the window, and marches off the other way, whistling a merry tune.

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**Who acts:** key, Toad · **What happens:** turn, hop, put, fill, tie, climb · **To what, where:** moment, bed, smartest suit, pockets, bed sheets, window

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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 (key, Toad), 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:8
# text = The moment the key turns, Toad hops lightly out of bed, puts on his smartest suit, fills his pockets with money from a drawer, ties his bed-sheets into a rope, climbs out of the window, and marches off the other way, whistling a merry tune.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nsubj
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	key	key	NOUN	NN	_	5	nsubj	_	_
5	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hops	hop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
9	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	smartest	smart	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	ties	tie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
33	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	climbs	climb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=38:cc
45	marches	march	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
46	off	off	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	whistling	whistle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20: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 | **turn** | present | the key | the moment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme moment=Result |
| 2 | **hop** | present | Toad |  |  | bed | moment | lightly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out bed=Trajectory |
| 3 | **put** | present | Toad *not said here* |  |  | Toad's smartest suit |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on suit=Destination |
| 4 | **fill** | present |  | Toad's pockets |  |  |  | with money from a drawer | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with money=Instrument |
| 5 | **tie** | present |  | Toad's bed sheets |  |  |  | into a rope | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sheet=Patient into rope=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **climb** | present |  |  |  | the window |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out window=Trajectory |
| 7 | **march** | present |  |  |  | the other way |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off way=Trajectory |
| 8 | **whistle** | gerund |  | a merry tune |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Topic |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-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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