--- title: But I tell you, I'd take any trouble on earth for you, if only you'd… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: But I tell you, I'd take any trouble on earth for you, if only you'd be a sensible animal.» Who acts: I, 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 with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/25/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/) / 25 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 25 But I tell you, I'd take any trouble on earth for you, if only you'd be a sensible animal.» **Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** tell, take, be · **To what, where:** you, trouble, earth, sensible animal · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I, 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:25 # text = But I tell you, I'd take any trouble on earth for you, if only you'd be a sensible animal.» # 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 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 9 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 19 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 advcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 25 » » SYM NFP _ 3 discourse _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **take** | would | I | any trouble | | earth | | for you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme on earth=Destination | | 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | you | a sensible animal | | | | | tree rules | 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:047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.lesson:25`. **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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/24/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/)