--- title: Yes, I've been a conceited old ass... but now I'm going to be a good… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Yes, I've been a conceited old ass... but now I'm going to be a good Toad» (sound = wise, sensible). Who acts: 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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.lesson:32 # text = Yes, I've been a conceited old ass... but now I'm going to be a good Toad» (sound = wise, sensible). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.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 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 9 discourse _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 4 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 5 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 conceited conceited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 ... ... PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 19 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:amod 20 Toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 23 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 = = PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 parataxis _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present · perfect | I | a conceited old ass | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | present · progressive | I | | | | now | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Toad » and sound | | | | | 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:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.lesson:32`. **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. **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 XI, p…, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/29/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/35/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/)