The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 10

«We're not arguing with you; we're just telling you.» «Mayn't I sing them just one little song?» «No, not one little song.» Toad's songs are conceit and boasting — «And gas,» adds Badger.

Who acts: We, I, songs, Badger, Toad · What happens: not argue, tell, may, not sing, be, add · To what, where: one little song, you, Rat, conceit · 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 (We, I, songs, Badger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 arguing	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 arguing	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 arguing	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 arguing	advmod
5	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 adds	advcl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 arguing	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 telling	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 telling	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 telling	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 telling	advmod
12	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 arguing	parataxis
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 telling	iobj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 telling	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 arguing	punct
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 May	punct
17	May	may	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 telling	ccomp
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 sing	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 sing	nsubj
20	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 May	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sing	iobj
22	just	just	ADV	_	25 song	advmod
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 song	nummod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 song	amod
25	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sing	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 arguing	punct
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 arguing	punct
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	34 song	punct
29	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	34 song	discourse
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 song	punct
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 song	advmod
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 song	nummod
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 song	amod
34	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arguing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 arguing	punct
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	41 conceit	punct
37	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 songs	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 Toad	case
39	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 conceit	nsubj
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 conceit	cop
41	conceit	conceit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arguing	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 boasting	cc
43	boasting	boasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 conceit	conj
44	—	-	PUNCT	_	45 «	punct
45	«	«	PUNCT	_	41 conceit	punct
46	And	and	CCONJ	_	47 gas	cc
47	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 conceit	appos
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 arguing	punct
49	»	»	PUNCT	_	50 adds	punct
50	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
51	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 adds	nsubj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 adds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not argue speech: disagree in a quote	present · progressive	We	one little song		with you	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	we		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	may in a quote	infinitive					tree rules
4	not sing speech: express in a quote	infinitive	I	one little song	Rat		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary song=Theme
5	is a	present	Toad's songs	conceit and boasting			tree rules
6	add speech: assert	present	Badger				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	sing		Toad				nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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, 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:10.

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, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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.

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