--- title: At lunch the Mole tells the Badger how lovely it is to live undergro… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: At lunch the Mole tells the Badger how lovely it is to live underground: nothing can get at you, and you are your own master. Who acts: Mole, nothing, you. 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 underg --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/8/) [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/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/) / 8 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 8 At lunch the Mole tells the Badger how lovely it is to live underground: nothing can get at you, and you are your own master. **Who acts:** Mole, nothing, you · **What happens:** tell, be, live, get · **To what, where:** Badger, lunch, own master · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Mole, nothing, you), 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:8 # text = At lunch the Mole tells the Badger how lovely it is to live underground: nothing can get at you, and you are your own master. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Badger badger NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 9 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 expl _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl 14 underground underground ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Mole | | the Badger | lunch | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent badger=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | lovely *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | | | | | | underground *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get** | can | nothing | | | | | at you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is a** | present | you | your own master | | | | | tree rules | 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:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/7/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/)