--- title: The Rat says it kindly but firmly: there will be no speeches and no… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat says it kindly but firmly: there will be no speeches and no songs. Who acts: Rat. 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 --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 9 The Rat says it kindly but firmly: there will be no speeches and no songs. **Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** room, speeches · **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 (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:9 # text = The Rat says it kindly but firmly: there will be no speeches and no songs. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 firmly firmly ADV RB _ 5 conj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 there there PRON EX _ 11 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:expl 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:aux 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 speeches speech NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 ccomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 16 det _ _ 16 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Rat | room | | | | kindly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | infinitive | | no speeches and no songs | | | | | 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:9`. **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. **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,…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/8/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/)