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title: I'll take you through all the Courts!» (a roadhog = a selfish, dange… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: I'll take you through all the Courts!» (a roadhog = a selfish, dangerous driver; highwaymen = old-time robbers on the roads). Who acts: I. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze)» of the books course of Mova's
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze), sentence 16

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I'll take you through all the Courts!» (a roadhog = a selfish, dangerous driver; highwaymen = old-time robbers on the roads).

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** you, Courts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze)» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.lesson:16
# text = I'll take you through all the Courts!» (a roadhog = a selfish, dangerous driver; highwaymen = old-time robbers on the roads).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.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	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	roadhog	roadhog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	selfish	selfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	highwaymen	highwayman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
22	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	26	punct	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **take** | future | I |  | you | all Courts |  | a roadhog and a selfish dangerous driver and highwaymen and time robbers on the roads *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |

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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:032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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