--- title: Try and grasp the fact that on this occasion we're not arguing with… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: Try and grasp the fact that on this occasion we're not arguing with you; we're just telling you.» Who acts: you, we. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» of the books course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/33/) [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 XII,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/) / 33 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 33 Try and grasp the fact that on this occasion we're not arguing with you; we're just telling you.» **Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** try, grasp, not argue, tell · **To what, where:** fact, occasion, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» 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 (you, we), 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:33 # text = Try and grasp the fact that on this occasion we're not arguing with you; we're just telling you.» # 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): no change 1 Try try VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 grasp grasp VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 occasion occasion NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 10 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 arguing argue VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 acl _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 just just ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 parataxis _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **grasp** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the fact | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fact=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · progressive | we | the fact *not said here* | | this occasion | | with you | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent fact=Topic with you=Co-Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | we | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | 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. 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