--- title: If there's nothing really the matter, the doctor will tell him he's… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: If there's nothing really the matter, the doctor will tell him he's an old ass». Who acts: nothing, doctor, 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 sheets)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [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/32/) [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/) / 32 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 32 If there's nothing really the matter, the doctor will tell him he's an old ass». **Who acts:** nothing, doctor, Rat · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** Rat, old ass · **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 (nothing, doctor, 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:32 # text = If there's nothing really the matter, the doctor will tell him he's an old ass». # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:advcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 nsubj _ _ 5 really really ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 15 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 ccomp _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | nothing | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | the doctor | | Rat | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** | present | Rat | a old ass | | | | | 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. 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