--- title: But, O dear, O dear, this is a hard world!» — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: But, O dear, O dear, this is a hard world!» Who acts: this. 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 dependency tree and the pragm --- [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/38/) [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/) / 38 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 38 But, O dear, O dear, this is a hard world!» **Who acts:** this · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** hard world 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 (this), 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:38 # text = But, O dear, O dear, this is a hard world!» # 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 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 discourse _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 O of INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 4 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 O of INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 7 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 14 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | this | a hard world | | | | | 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:38`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,…, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/37/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,…, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/39/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/)