--- title: «It is a goodly life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: «It is a goodly life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are strong enough to lead it!» The Water Rat answers «Yes, it's the life, the only life, to live», but «without his usual whole-hearted conviction». Who acts: river, you, Water Rat, Rat. 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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 (river, you, Water Rat, Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.lesson:11 # text = «It is a goodly life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are strong enough to lead it!» The Water Rat answers «Yes, it's the life, the only life, to live», but «without his usual whole-hearted conviction». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 goodly goodly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 obj _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lead lead VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 vocative _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 doubt doubt NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 parataxis _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 26 enough enough ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 lead lead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 32 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:det 33 Water Water PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ _ 34 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 36 « « PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 37 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 42 discourse _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:obj 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 appos _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 live live VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 42 parataxis _ _ 50 » » PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=49:punct 51 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 52 but but CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 53 « « PUNCT `` _ 60 punct _ _ 54 without without ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 55 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 60 nmod:poss _ _ 56 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 57 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=60:amod 58 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 57 punct _ _ 59 hearted heart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=60:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 60 conviction conviction NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 61 » » PUNCT '' _ 60 punct _ _ 62 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | river | a goodly life | | | | friend *vocative* | tree rules | | 2 | **lead** *in a quote* | present | you | a goodly life | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | enough, strong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **lead** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | river | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **answer** *speech: express* | present | the Water Rat | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | river | the life | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **convict** *in a quote* | | Rat | | | | | | nom conviction «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.lesson:11`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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