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title: Please, I want to row, now!» — «Not yet, my young friend ... wait ti… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Please, I want to row, now!» — «Not yet, my young friend ... wait till you've had a few lessons. Who acts: I, young friend, you. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins)» of the books c
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins), sentence 16

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Please, I want to row, now!» — «Not yet, my young friend ... wait till you've had a few lessons.

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**Who acts:** I, young friend, you · **What happens:** want, row, wait, have · **To what, where:** young friend, few lessons

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins)» 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 (I, young friend, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.lesson:16
# text = Please, I want to row, now!» — «Not yet, my young friend ... wait till you've had a few lessons.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.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
1	Please	please	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	row	row	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
13	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
19	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **want** | present | I | my young friend |  |  | now; yet |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **row** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | my young friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wait** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present · perfect | you | a few lessons |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Patient |

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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:028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.lesson:16`.

**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. **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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