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title: The Rat on Toad: «Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, alwa… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rat on Toad: «Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!» and «So simple, so good-natured, and so affectionate. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall)» of the bo
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 23

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The Rat on Toad: «Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!» and «So simple, so good-natured, and so affectionate.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, go · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall)» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:23
# text = The Rat on Toad: «Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!» and «So simple, so good-natured, and so affectionate.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
7	Always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	tempered	temper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
19	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	appos	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
27	So	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod
31	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	compound	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	natured	nature	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=33:conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:23`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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