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title: Supposing another Thing were to come along?» The Rat: «O, bother Toa… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Supposing another Thing were to come along?» The Rat: «O, bother Toad ... Who acts: Thing. 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 with its dependency tree and the
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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 31

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Supposing another Thing were to come along?» The Rat: «O, bother Toad ...

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**Who acts:** Thing · **What happens:** suppose, come along · **To what, where:** Rat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Thing), 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:31
# text = Supposing another Thing were to come along?» The Rat: «O, bother Toad ...
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Supposing	suppose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	Thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
7	along	along	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	1	punct	_	_
14	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	bother	bother	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
17	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:vocative|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	...	...	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **suppose** | gerund |  | the Rat |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **come along** | past | another Thing |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.lesson:31`.

**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): R5-strong ×2. **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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