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title: Would you have him a common laughing-stock, mocked and jeered at by… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Would you have him a common laughing-stock, mocked and jeered at by stoats and weasels?» The Rat had read the invitations: «simply disgraceful», and «confiscated the lot» (took them all away). Who acts: you, Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of U
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 40

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Would you have him a common laughing-stock, mocked and jeered at by stoats and weasels?» The Rat had read the invitations: «simply disgraceful», and «confiscated the lot» (took them all away).

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**Who acts:** you, Rat · **What happens:** have, mock, jeer, read, confiscate, take away · **To what, where:** fellow, common laughing stock, invitations, lot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Rat), 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:40
# text = Would you have him a common laughing-stock, mocked and jeered at by stoats and weasels?» The Rat had read the invitations: «simply disgraceful», and «confiscated the lot» (took them all away).
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	laughing	laughing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	mocked	mock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	jeered	jeer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	stoats	stoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:agent	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advcl
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	invitations	invitation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
29	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	disgraceful	disgraceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
35	confiscated	confiscate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
39	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
40	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	nmod:unmarked	_	_
43	away	away	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
44	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=assert, indirect=1, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | you | fellow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mock** | participle |  | a common laughing stock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **jeer** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **read** *in a quote* | past · perfect | the Rat | the invitations |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Topic |
| 5 | **confiscate** | past | the Rat *not said here* | the lot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **take away** *in a quote* | past |  | invitations *= invitation* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:40`.

**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, 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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