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title: All the river bank was in a panic, he says — Rat and Mole gone all n… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: All the river bank was in a panic, he says — Rat and Mole gone all night! — but he guessed they'd be at Badger's, because anyone in trouble ends up at Badger's. Who acts: river bank, Otter, Rat, they. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 1

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All the river bank was in a panic, he says — Rat and Mole gone all night! — but he guessed they'd be at Badger's, because anyone in trouble ends up at Badger's.

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**Who acts:** river bank, Otter, Rat, they, anyone · **What happens:** be, say, go, guess, end up · **To what, where:** panic · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground)» 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 (river bank, Otter, Rat, they), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:1
# text = All the river bank was in a panic, he says — Rat and Mole gone all night! — but he guessed they'd be at Badger's, because anyone in trouble ends up at Badger's.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.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 ×1
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	panic	panic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	_
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	35	nsubj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11: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 | **is** | past | all river bank |  |  | a panic |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Otter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | participle | Rat and Mole |  |  |  | night |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **guess** | past | Otter |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | would | they |  |  |  |  | at Badger | tree rules |
| 6 | **end up** | present | anyone |  |  |  |  | at Badger | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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 ×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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