--- title: Badger lives in the middle of it, and nobody bothers him — but there… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Badger lives in the middle of it, and nobody bothers him — but there are weasels, stoats and foxes too, and «you can't really trust them». Who acts: Badger, nobody, weasels, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badger, nobody, weasels, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.lesson:6 # text = Badger lives in the middle of it, and nobody bothers him — but there are weasels, stoats and foxes too, and «you can't really trust them». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 nsubj _ _ 11 bothers bother VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 — - PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 16 expl _ _ 16 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 weasels weasel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 stoats stoat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 22 too too ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 27 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 really really ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 trust trust VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 parataxis _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Badger | | | the middle of middle | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | | 2 | **bother** | present | nobody | Badger | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | | 3 | **does** | present | weasels and stoats and foxes | | | there | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **trust** *in a quote* | can | you | weasels *= weasel* | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.lesson:6`. **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): 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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