--- title: The Badger's first words are gruff: «Now, the very next time this ha… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The Badger's first words are gruff: «Now, the very next time this happens, I shall be exceedingly angry.» (Exceedingly = very.) Who acts: first words, this, Mole, Badger. 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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 (first words, this, Mole, Badger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.lesson:11 # text = The Badger's first words are gruff: «Now, the very next time this happens, I shall be exceedingly angry.» (Exceedingly = very.) # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 gruff gruff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 10 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 nsubj _ _ 17 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 20 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 22 exceedingly exceedingly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 27 Exceedingly exceedingly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 = = PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Badger's first words | | | | | gruff *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **happen** *in a quote* | present | this | the next time *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | Mole | | | | now; time | angry, exceedingly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **word** | | the Badger | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: 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](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:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.lesson:11`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/10/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/)