--- title: Old words: «I dare say» = I suppose; «post-haste» = in a great hurry… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Old words: «I dare say» = I suppose; «post-haste» = in a great hurry; «humbug» = a fake, a pretender; «a dish-clout» = a dishcloth; «I'll lay» = I bet. Who acts: horse, I. 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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 (horse, I), 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:28 # text = Old words: «I dare say» = I suppose; «post-haste» = in a great hurry; «humbug» = a fake, a pretender; «a dish-clout» = a dishcloth; «I'll lay» = I bet. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×5 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 dare dare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 7 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 9 = = PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 suppose suppose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 post-haste post-haste NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 = = PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 hurry hurry NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 humbug humbug NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 25 = = PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 fake fake NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 pretender pretender NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 36 clout clout NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 38 = = PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 dishcloth dishcloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 41 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 42 « « PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl:relcl _ _ 46 » » PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 47 = = PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 bet bet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=49:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - hedged: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dare** *in a quote* | present | horse | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | horse *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **suppose** | present | I | humbug and a fake and a dish clout and a dishcloth | | a great hurry | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **lay** *in a quote* | future | horse | humbug and a fake and a dish clout and a dishcloth *not said here* | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent humbug=Result | | 5 | **bet** | present | I | | | | | | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=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:061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.lesson:28`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×5. **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…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman/26/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, pa…, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman/)