--- title: Badger «nodded gravely at intervals as the animals told their story»… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: Badger «nodded gravely at intervals as the animals told their story», and did not seem surprised or shocked at anything. Who acts: Badger, animals. 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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, animals), 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:23 # text = Badger «nodded gravely at intervals as the animals told their story», and did not seem surprised or shocked at anything. # 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): no change 1 Badger badger NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 nodded nod VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 gravely gravely ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 intervals interval NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 19 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 shocked shocked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nod** *in a quote* | past | Badger | | | intervals | | gravely *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the animals | animals's story | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **seem** | past · do-support | Badger *not said here* | | | | | surprised *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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. 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