--- title: But Toad boasts too much. — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: But Toad boasts too much. Who acts: Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman/11/) [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 X, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman/) / 11 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing), sentence 11 But Toad boasts too much. **Who acts:** Toad · **What happens:** boast · **To what, where:** much This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing)» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.lesson:11 # text = But Toad boasts too much. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 boasts boast VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 6 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **boast** *speech: other* | present | Toad | much | | | | | 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:061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.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): 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 X, pa…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman/10/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, pa…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman/)