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title: You're so eloquent, dear Badger … you can do what you like with me i… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: You're so eloquent, dear Badger … you can do what you like with me in there … But I've been searching my mind since … I find that I'm not a bit sorry or repentant really». Who acts: You, I, my. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 30

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You're so eloquent, dear Badger … you can do what you like with me in there … But I've been searching my mind since … I find that I'm not a bit sorry or repentant really».

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**Who acts:** You, I, my · **What happens:** be, do, like, search, find, not be · **To what, where:** mind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom)» 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 (You, I, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.lesson:30
# text = You're so eloquent, dear Badger … you can do what you like with me in there … But I've been searching my mind since … I find that I'm not a bit sorry or repentant really».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	eloquent	eloquent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	…	…	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	_
19	…	…	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux	_	_
24	searching	search	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	…	…	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
33	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:det
36	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:compound
37	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	ccomp	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	repentant	repentant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
40	really	really	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
41	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | You |  |  |  |  | eloquent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **like** | present | you |  |  |  |  | with me | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **search** | present · perfect · progressive | I | my mind |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent mind=Location |
| 5 | **find** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | a bit *obl*; sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **mind** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.lesson:30`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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