--- title: «Busy» in his study, they say — which everyone knows means asleep in… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: «Busy» in his study, they say — which everyone knows means asleep in his arm-chair with a red handkerchief over his face. Who acts: fines, everyone, Badger. 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)» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/) / 13 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 13 «Busy» in his study, they say — which everyone knows means asleep in his arm-chair with a red handkerchief over his face. **Who acts:** fines, everyone, Badger · **What happens:** say, know, mean, study · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (fines, everyone, Badger), 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:13 # text = «Busy» in his study, they say — which everyone knows means asleep in his arm-chair with a red handkerchief over his face. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Busy busy X GW _ 14 dislocated _ _ 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 — - PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 12 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 13 nsubj _ _ 13 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 14 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 18 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 handkerchief handkerchief NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod 25 over over ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | fines *= fine* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **know** | present | everyone | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | Busy *dislocated*; asleep *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **study** | | Badger | | | | | | nom study «act 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:038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson:13`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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