--- title: The writer jokes that he was wrong, «because they do matter very muc… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The writer jokes that he was wrong, «because they do matter very much, though it would take too long to explain why». Who acts: writer, manners, it. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (writer, manners, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.lesson:22 # text = The writer jokes that he was wrong, «because they do matter very much, though it would take too long to explain why». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 writer writer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 jokes joke VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 matter matter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 much much ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 though though SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 21 too too ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 25 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | the writer | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | writer | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **matter** *in a quote* | present · do-support | manners | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **take** *in a quote* | would | it | | | | | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **explain** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. 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