--- title: «Mayn't I sing them just one little song?» he pleaded piteously. — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: «Mayn't I sing them just one little song?» he pleaded piteously. Who acts: SONG. 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 with its dependen --- [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/34/) [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/) / 34 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 34 «Mayn't I sing them just one little song?» he pleaded piteously. **Who acts:** SONG · **What happens:** not sing, plead · **To what, where:** SPEECH · **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 (SONG), 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:34 # text = «Mayn't I sing them just one little song?» he pleaded piteously. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 May may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 just just ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 pleaded plead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 15 piteously piteously ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed form=q, act=request, indirect=1, polarity=none, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | may | SONG | SPEECH | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary song=Theme | | 2 | **plead** *speech: request* | past | SONG | | | | | piteously *property* | 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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:34`. **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, R7-rel-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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