--- title: Toad is thrilled: he will tell them a story, get a lift, and perhaps… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad is thrilled: he will tell them a story, get a lift, and perhaps even drive up to Toad Hall in a car — «one in the eye for Badger!» Who acts: Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same moto --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/4/) [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 X, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/) / 4 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car), sentence 4 Toad is thrilled: he will tell them a story, get a lift, and perhaps even drive up to Toad Hall in a car — «one in the eye for Badger!» **Who acts:** Toad · **What happens:** be, tell, get, drive up · **To what, where:** story, prison, lift, Toad Hall, car · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 3: The Further Adventures of Toad (the most conceited song and the very same motor-car)» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:063-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song.lesson:4 # text = Toad is thrilled: he will tell them a story, get a lift, and perhaps even drive up to Toad Hall in a car — «one in the eye for Badger!» # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 063-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 thrilled thrilled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 iobj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 lift lift NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 even even ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Hall Hall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 27 — - PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 parataxis _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obl 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 35 ! ! PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Toad | | | | | thrilled *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | Toad | a story | prison | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic | | 3 | **get** | infinitive | Toad *not said here* | a lift | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lift=Stimulus | | 4 | **drive up** | infinitive | Toad *not said here* | | Toad Hall | a car | | perhaps *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to hall=Trajectory | 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:063-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song.lesson:4`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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. 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