--- title: They «made so bold as to knock» (dared to knock) at Badger's back do… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: They «made so bold as to knock» (dared to knock) at Badger's back door. Who acts: fines. 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 with its dependency tr --- [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/35/) [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/) / 35 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 35 They «made so bold as to knock» (dared to knock) at Badger's back door. **Who acts:** fines · **What happens:** make, knock, dare · **To what, where:** back door 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), 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:35 # text = They «made so bold as to knock» (dared to knock) at Badger's back door. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 bold bold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 knock knock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 11 dared dare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 knock knock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** *in a quote* | past | fines *= fine* | | | | | bold *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **knock** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | fines *= fine* *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **dare** | participle | fines *= fine* *not said here* | | | Badger's back door | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **knock** | to-infinitive | fines *= fine* *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | 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:35`. **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): R7-rel-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. 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