The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 33

Try and grasp the fact that on this occasion we're not arguing with you; we're just telling you.»

Who acts: you, we · What happens: try, grasp, not argue, tell · To what, where: fact, occasion, you · 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 (you, we), 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	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 grasp	cc
3	grasp	grasp	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Try	conj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fact	det
5	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grasp	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 arguing	mark
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 occasion	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 occasion	det
9	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arguing	obl
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 arguing	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 arguing	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 arguing	advmod
13	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 fact	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 arguing	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 telling	punct
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 telling	nsubj
18	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 telling	aux
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 telling	advmod
20	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Try	parataxis
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 telling	iobj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Try	punct
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Try	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	grasp	infinitive	you not said here	the fact				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fact=Stimulus
3	not argue speech: disagree	present · progressive	we	the fact not said here		this occasion	with you	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent fact=Topic with you=Co-Agent
4	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	we		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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:33.

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.

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