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title: We all know Toad!»—(great laughter)—«Good Toad, modest Toad, honest… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: We all know Toad!»—(great laughter)—«Good Toad, modest Toad, honest Toad!» (shrieks of merriment). Who acts: We. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»)» of the books course of 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»), sentence 32

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We all know Toad!»—(great laughter)—«Good Toad, modest Toad, honest Toad!» (shrieks of merriment).

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** know, shriek · **To what, where:** Toad, merriment

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»)» 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 (We), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:32
# text = We all know Toad!»—(great laughter)—«Good Toad, modest Toad, honest Toad!» (shrieks of merriment).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	modest	modest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
25	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:appos
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	merriment	merriment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | We | Toad |  |  |  | great laughter *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer toad=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shriek** *in a quote* |  |  | merriment |  |  |  |  | nom shriek «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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