--- title: Toad blames «the pettifogging mistrustfulness of paid officials» (pe… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: T… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad blames «the pettifogging mistrustfulness of paid officials» (pettifogging = fussy about small things) — really it is his own fault. Who acts: Toad, mistrustfulness. 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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 (Toad, mistrustfulness), 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:20 # text = Toad blames «the pettifogging mistrustfulness of paid officials» (pettifogging = fussy about small things) — really it is his own fault. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Toad toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 blames blame VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 pettifogging pettifog VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 amod _ _ 6 mistrustfulness mistrustfulness NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 officials official NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 12 pettifogging pettifog VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 13 = = SYM SYM _ 14 punct _ _ 14 fussy fussy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 19 — - PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 20 really really ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blame** | present | Toad | the pettifogging mistrustfulness of paid officials | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistrustfulness=Theme | | 2 | **pettifog** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pay** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **pettifog** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | mistrustfulness | Toad's own fault | | | | | 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:054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.lesson:20`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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,…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/19/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII,…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/)