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title: Full and warm by the fire, the friends chat, and Badger asks how old… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: Full and warm by the fire, the friends chat, and Badger asks how old Toad is getting on. Who acts: friends, Badger, old Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs)» of the books course of Mova's 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 0

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Full and warm by the fire, the friends chat, and Badger asks how old Toad is getting on.

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**Who acts:** friends, Badger, old Toad · **What happens:** chat, ask, get on · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs)» 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 (friends, Badger, old Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson:0
# text = Full and warm by the fire, the friends chat, and Badger asks how old Toad is getting on.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	chat	chat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chat** *speech: other* | present | the friends |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Badger |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get on** | present · progressive | old Toad |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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