--- title: When the Mole politely praises Toad Hall, Toad cries «Finest house o… — Off with her head and the finest house on the ri… · tree and pragmatics description: When the Mole politely praises Toad Hall, Toad cries «Finest house on the whole river», and then cannot help adding «Or anywhere else, for that matter». Who acts: Mole, Toad. A sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language course of Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/16/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Off with her head and the finest house…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/) / 16 # Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 16 When the Mole politely praises Toad Hall, Toad cries «Finest house on the whole river», and then cannot help adding «Or anywhere else, for that matter». **Who acts:** Mole, Toad · **What happens:** praise, cry, not help, add · **To what, where:** Toad, Finest house, whole river This is a sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language 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 (Mole, Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:16 # text = When the Mole politely praises Toad Hall, Toad cries «Finest house on the whole river», and then cannot help adding «Or anywhere else, for that matter». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.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 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 politely politely ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 praises praise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 6 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 Hall Hall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 cries cry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 « « PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Finest fine ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 then then ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 25 adding add VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 xcomp _ _ 26 « « PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 Or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 anywhere anywhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 25 advmod _ _ 29 else else ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **praise** | present | the Mole | Toad | | | | politely *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Toad | Finest house | | the whole river | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme on river=Destination | | 3 | **not** **help** | can | Toad *not said here* | | | | then | for that matter | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **add** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | gerund | Toad *not said here* | | | | | anywhere *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:16`. **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): no change. **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: [Off with her head and the finest house…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/13/) - next →: [Off with her head and the finest house…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/)