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title: It was simply glorious!» In there, Toad explains, the Badger was so… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was simply glorious!» In there, Toad explains, the Badger was so moving that he'd have said anything. Who acts: pause, Toad, Badger. 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
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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 8

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It was simply glorious!» In there, Toad explains, the Badger was so moving that he'd have said anything.

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**Who acts:** pause, Toad, Badger · **What happens:** be, explain, move, say · **To what, where:** anything · **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 (pause, Toad, Badger), 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:8
# text = It was simply glorious!» In there, Toad explains, the Badger was so moving that he'd have said anything.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	In	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	explains	explain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
23	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj
24	.	.	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** | past | pause |  |  |  |  | glorious, simply *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Toad |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **move** *in a quote* | past · progressive | the Badger |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | would · perfect | Toad | anything |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |

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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:8`.

**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 ×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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