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title: Or anywhere else, for that matter,» he «could not help adding». — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Or anywhere else, for that matter,» he «could not help adding». Who acts: Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 18

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Or anywhere else, for that matter,» he «could not help adding».

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**Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** not help, add

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan)» 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 (Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.lesson:18
# text = Or anywhere else, for that matter,» he «could not help adding».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.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 ×5
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
3	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
15	adding	add	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **not** **help** | could | Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | gerund | Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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:030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.lesson:18`.

**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 ×5. **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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