--- title: «Honest Toad was always ready to admit himself in the wrong»: «You a… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: T… · tree and pragmatics description: «Honest Toad was always ready to admit himself in the wrong»: «You are a good, kind, clever girl ... and I am indeed a proud and a stupid toad.» Who acts: Honest Toad, You, girl. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress)» of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman/16/) [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 VIII,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman/) / 16 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 16 «Honest Toad was always ready to admit himself in the wrong»: «You are a good, kind, clever girl ... and I am indeed a proud and a stupid toad.» **Who acts:** Honest Toad, You, girl · **What happens:** be, admit · **To what, where:** Toad, wrong, good kind clever girl This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress)» 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 (Honest Toad, You, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.lesson:16 # text = «Honest Toad was always ready to admit himself in the wrong»: «You are a good, kind, clever girl ... and I am indeed a proud and a stupid toad.» # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.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 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 Honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 6 advmod _ _ 6 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 admit admit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 8 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 wrong wrong NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 16 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 19 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 25 ... ... PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 28 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 parataxis _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Honest Toad | | | | | always, ready *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **admit** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Honest Toad *not said here* | Toad | | the wrong | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in wrong=Location | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | You | a good kind clever girl | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | girl | | | | | indeed, proud *property* | 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:053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.lesson:16`. **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): R8-pos-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 VIII,…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman/15/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII,…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman/)