--- title: «On the contrary, I faithfully promise that the very first motor-car… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: «On the contrary, I faithfully promise that the very first motor-car I see, poop-poop! off I go in it!» The Rat to the Mole: «Told you so, didn't I?» Who acts: I. 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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 (I), 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:31 # text = «On the contrary, I faithfully promise that the very first motor-car I see, poop-poop! off I go in it!» The Rat to the Mole: «Told you so, didn't I?» # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 2 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 contrary contrary NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 faithfully faithfully ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 promise promise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 amod _ _ 13 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 poop poop NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 poop poop NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 22 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 23 off off ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:mark|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 ! ! PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 30 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl 35 : : PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 36 « « PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 37 Told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 iobj _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 41 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 parataxis _ _ 42 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 44 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 45 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | present | I | | | the contrary | | faithfully *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present | I | the first motor car and poop poop *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | I | the Rat to the Mole | | poop | | off *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in it=Location | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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