--- title: He tries his grand old manner, «I'm well-known in these parts», but… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: T… · tree and pragmatics description: He tries his grand old manner, «I'm well-known in these parts», but the clerk laughs at the «madam», and an old gentleman pushes him away and calls him «my good woman», which makes Toad angrier than anything. Who acts: washerwoman, old gentleman, clerk, good woman. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (washerwoman, old gentleman, clerk, good woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.lesson:2 # text = He tries his grand old manner, «I'm well-known in these parts», but the clerk laughs at the «madam», and an old gentleman pushes him away and calls him «my good woman», which makes Toad angrier than anything. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 10 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 known know ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 21 clerk clerk NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 23 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 madam madam NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nmod 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 gentleman gentleman NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 away away ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 « « PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 40 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:obl 43 » » PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 nsubj _ _ 46 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ _ 47 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 48 angrier angry ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 46 xcomp _ _ 49 than than ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 48 obl _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | present | washerwoman | washerwoman's grand old manner | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a old gentleman *= gentleman* | | | this parts | | know, well *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **laugh** | present | the clerk | | | | | at the madam | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **push away** | present | a old gentleman | washerwoman | | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | a old gentleman *not said here* | | washerwoman | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 6 | **make** | present | my good woman | Toad | | | | angry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset toad=Product | 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:054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.lesson:2`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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. 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