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title: Toad: «I'm afraid it is the trouble you mind … I'm a nuisance, I kno… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: Toad: «I'm afraid it is the trouble you mind … I'm a nuisance, I know.» The Rat: «You are, indeed. Who acts: Rat, hint, you. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets)» of the books course of Mova's primary school 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 24

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Toad: «I'm afraid it is the trouble you mind … I'm a nuisance, I know.» The Rat: «You are, indeed.

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**Who acts:** Rat, hint, you · **What happens:** be, mind, know · **To what, where:** trouble, nuisance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets)» 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, hint, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.lesson:24
# text = Toad: «I'm afraid it is the trouble you mind … I'm a nuisance, I know.» The Rat: «You are, indeed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.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	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	mind	mind	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	…	…	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	nuisance	nuisance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
27	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	conj	_	_
28	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Rat *= rat* |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | hint | the trouble |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mind** *in a quote* | present | you | the trouble *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Rat *= rat* | a nuisance |  |  |  | the Rat *nmod* | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the Rat *= rat* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.lesson:24`.

**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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