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title: The Badger to the chauffeur (the paid driver): «I'm afraid you won't… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Badger to the chauffeur (the paid driver): «I'm afraid you won't be wanted to-day … Mr. Who acts: Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!), sentence 27

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The Badger to the chauffeur (the paid driver): «I'm afraid you won't be wanted to-day … Mr.

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**Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** pay, be, not want · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» 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:045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.lesson:27
# text = The Badger to the chauffeur (the paid driver): «I'm afraid you won't be wanted to-day … Mr.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chauffeur	chauffeur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	wanted	want	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	…	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
25	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
```

## 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 | **pay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Rat *= rat* |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | you |  |  | day |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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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**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): 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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