--- title: I call it simply ridiculous.» The first swallow: «we're not off yet… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: I call it simply ridiculous.» The first swallow: «we're not off yet ... Who acts: I, we. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/8/) [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 IX, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/) / 8 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 8 I call it simply ridiculous.» The first swallow: «we're not off yet ... **Who acts:** I, we · **What happens:** call, not be · **To what, where:** slope, first swallow · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South)» 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 (I, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.lesson:8 # text = I call it simply ridiculous.» The first swallow: «we're not off yet ... # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 simply simply ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 ridiculous ridiculous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 6 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 8 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 amod _ _ 10 swallow swallow NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 13 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 off off ADV RB _ 10 acl:relcl _ _ 17 yet yet ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 ... ... 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 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | I | slope | | | | ridiculous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | we | the first swallow *not said here* | | | yet | off *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:057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.lesson:8`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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 IX, p…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/7/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/)