--- title: Sitting by the driver, Toad asks sweetly if «she» may try driving, j… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Sitting by the driver, Toad asks sweetly if «she» may try driving, just to tell her friends. Who acts: Toad, friends. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The Further Adventures of Toad (the horse-pond, the chase and a face in the bank)» of the books course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/64-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond/0/) [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/64-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond/) / 0 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The Further Adventures of Toad (the horse-pond, the chase and a face in the bank), sentence 0 Sitting by the driver, Toad asks sweetly if «she» may try driving, just to tell her friends. **Who acts:** Toad, friends · **What happens:** sit, ask, try, drive, tell · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The Further Adventures of Toad (the horse-pond, the chase and a face in the bank)» 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, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.lesson:0 # text = Sitting by the driver, Toad asks sweetly if «she» may try driving, just to tell her friends. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 2 by by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 sweetly sweetly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 if if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 10 « « PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 » » PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 15 driving drive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 just just ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | gerund | Toad *not said here* | | | | | by the driver | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by driver=Location | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Toad | | | | | sweetly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **try** *a condition, not said to happen* | may | Toad | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **drive** *not said to happen* | gerund | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Toad's friends | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.lesson:0`. **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): 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. 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/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/28/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, pa…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/64-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/64-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond/)