--- title: If he'd only pay «a decent, steady, well-trained animal» to drive fo… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: If he'd only pay «a decent, steady, well-trained animal» to drive for him, «he'd get on all right». Who acts: 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 (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:18 # text = If he'd only pay «a decent, steady, well-trained animal» to drive for him, «he'd get on all right». # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 8 decent decent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 steady steady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obl _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | would | Badger | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **train** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **drive** | to-infinitive | | | | | | for Badger | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get** *in a quote* | would | Badger | | | all right | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on right=Source | 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:18`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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