--- title: And, while he's at it, would he ask the lawyer to come too? — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: And, while he's at it, would he ask the lawyer to come too? Who acts: Badger. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 5 And, while he's at it, would he ask the lawyer to come too? **Who acts:** Badger · **What happens:** be, ask, come · **To what, where:** hero, lawyer 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 (Badger), 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:5 # text = And, while he's at it, would he ask the lawyer to come too? # 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 And and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 while while SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 advcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 lawyer lawyer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 16 too too ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=ask | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Badger | | | hero | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | would | Badger | | the lawyer | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent lawyer=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Badger *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:5`. **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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/4/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/)