--- title: Toad: «It was, to be sure, but a small thing that I asked—merely lea… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad: «It was, to be sure, but a small thing that I asked—merely leave to blossom and expand for yet one more evening... Who acts: heart, I. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/37/) [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 XII,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/) / 37 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 37 Toad: «It was, to be sure, but a small thing that I asked—merely leave to blossom and expand for yet one more evening... **Who acts:** heart, I · **What happens:** be, ask, leave, blossom, expand · **To what, where:** small thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» 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 (heart, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:37 # text = Toad: «It was, to be sure, but a small thing that I asked—merely leave to blossom and expand for yet one more evening... # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.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): no change 1 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 1 mark _ _ 4 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 9 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 obj _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 — - PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 merely merely ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 blossom blossom VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 expand expand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 yet yet ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 28 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 ... ... PUNCT . _ 1 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** *in a quote* | past | heart | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | I | a small thing | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent that=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | merely *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **blossom** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **expand** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | evening | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:37`. **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): no change. **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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