--- title: The barge-woman laughs till she cries: «I thought you must be a humb… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The barge-woman laughs till she cries: «I thought you must be a humbug all along, from the conceited way you talked.» Who acts: barge woman, woman, I, you. 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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 (barge woman, woman, I, you), 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:29 # text = The barge-woman laughs till she cries: «I thought you must be a humbug all along, from the conceited way you talked.» # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 barge barge NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 till till SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 cries cry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 humbug humbug NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 ccomp _ _ 18 all all ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 along along ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 conceited conceited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | present | the barge woman | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | woman | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | I | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | must | you | a humbug | | the conceited way | | along *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **talk** *in a quote* | past | you | the conceited way *not said here* | | | | | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent way=Patient | 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:29`. **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): no change. **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…, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman/28/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, pa…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman/)