--- title: Now I'm going to tell you a great secret» — one that Toad's father t… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Now I'm going to tell you a great secret» — one that Toad's father told him and «wouldn't have dreamt of telling» his own son, because Toad «simply cannot hold his tongue» (cannot keep a secret). Who acts: I, father, Toad. 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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, father, Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:44 # text = Now I'm going to tell you a great secret» — one that Toad's father told him and «wouldn't have dreamt of telling» his own son, because Toad «simply cannot hold his tongue» (cannot keep a secret). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×5 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 12 — - PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:appos|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obj _ _ 15 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 22 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux _ _ 25 dreamt dream VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 26 of of SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 advcl _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 34 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 35 « « PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 36 simply simply ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 » » PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=46:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 43 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 44 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:conj 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 49 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present · progressive | I | | | | now | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a great secret | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient secret=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Toad's father | | Toad | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic | | 4 | **not** **dream** | would · perfect | Toad's father *not said here* | | | | | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Toad's father *not said here* | | father's own son | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient | | 6 | **not** **hold** | can | Toad | father's tongue | | | | simply *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **keep** *in a quote* | can | | a secret | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | 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:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:44`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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