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title: The driver: «I fear that you have been indeed a wicked toad, and by… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: The driver: «I fear that you have been indeed a wicked toad, and by rights I ought to give you up to offended justice. Who acts: Toad, you. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood)» of the books course of Mo
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood), sentence 16

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The driver: «I fear that you have been indeed a wicked toad, and by rights I ought to give you up to offended justice.

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**Who acts:** Toad, you · **What happens:** fear, be, ought, give up, offend · **To what, where:** wicked toad, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood)» 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 (Toad, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:055-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel.lesson:16
# text = The driver: «I fear that you have been indeed a wicked toad, and by rights I ought to give you up to offended justice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 055-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
11	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	ought	ought	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	offended	offend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
27	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** *in a quote* | present | Toad |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | a wicked toad |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ought** *in a quote* | past | Toad |  |  |  |  | by rights | tree rules |
| 4 | **give up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Toad *not said here* |  | you |  |  | to offended justice | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to justice=Recipient |
| 5 | **offend** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:055-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel.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): R5-strong ×1, 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/).

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