--- title: The Otter: «if there's a head that needs to be punched, you can conf… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The Otter: «if there's a head that needs to be punched, you can confidently rely upon me to punch it.» Who acts: head, you. 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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 (head, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:040-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood.lesson:29 # text = The Otter: «if there's a head that needs to be punched, you can confidently rely upon me to punch it.» # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 040-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Otter otter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 7 expl _ _ 7 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 punched punch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 confidently confidently ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 rely rely VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 20 upon upon ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 punch punch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 26 » » PUNCT NFP _ 2 conj _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a head | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **need** *in a quote* | present | a head | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **punch** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | a head *not said here* | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» | | 4 | **rely** *in a quote* | can | you | | | | | upon the Badger *= badger*; confidently *property* | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **punch** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | head | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:040-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood.lesson:29`. **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. **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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