--- title: «We're not arguing with you; we're just telling you.» «Mayn't I sing… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: «We're not arguing with you; we're just telling you.» «Mayn't I sing them just one little song?» «No, not one little song.» Toad's songs are conceit and boasting — «And gas,» adds Badger. Who acts: We, I, songs, Badger. 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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 (We, I, songs, Badger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:10 # text = «We're not arguing with you; we're just telling you.» «Mayn't I sing them just one little song?» «No, not one little song.» Toad's songs are conceit and boasting — «And gas,» adds Badger. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 arguing argue VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 50 advcl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 just just ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 May may VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj 22 just just ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl 26 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 29 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 34 discourse _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 33 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 37 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 38 's 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 40 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 conceit conceit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 boasting boasting NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 44 — - PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 45 « « PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 46 And and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 appos _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 49 » » PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ 50 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 51 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=50:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 52 . . PUNCT . _ 50 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **argue** *speech: disagree* *in a quote* | present · progressive | We | one little song | | | | with you | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · progressive | we | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **may** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | infinitive | I | one little song | Rat | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary song=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | Toad's songs | conceit and boasting | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Badger | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **sing** | | Toad | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:10`. **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 ×4, 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. 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