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title: «Surely you have noticed of late——» … «To-morrow, indeed, you may be… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Surely you have noticed of late——» … «To-morrow, indeed, you may be saying to yourself, ‘O, if only I had noticed sooner!’» — he wants the Rat to feel guilty. Who acts: you, Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of
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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 29

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«Surely you have noticed of late——» … «To-morrow, indeed, you may be saying to yourself, ‘O, if only I had noticed sooner!’» — he wants the Rat to feel guilty.

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**Who acts:** you, Rat · **What happens:** notice, say, want, feel · **To what, where:** yourself, Rat · **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 (you, Rat), 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:29
# text = «Surely you have noticed of late——» … «To-morrow, indeed, you may be saying to yourself, ‘O, if only I had noticed sooner!’» — he wants the Rat to feel guilty.
# 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): no change
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
7	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	…	…	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
13	To	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
17	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
27	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	ccomp	_	_
34	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
37	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
38	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
45	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **notice** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | late, surely *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | may · progressive | you |  | yourself |  |  | to morrow; indeed *property* | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to morrow=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **notice** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect | the Rat *= rat* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **want** | present | Rat | the Rat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | guilty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**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): no change. **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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