--- title: The Badger promises to pass the word around: any friend of his can w… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The Badger promises to pass the word around: any friend of his can walk where he likes. Who acts: Badger, friend. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/40-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood/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/40-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood/) / 8 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home), sentence 8 The Badger promises to pass the word around: any friend of his can walk where he likes. **Who acts:** Badger, friend · **What happens:** promise, pass around, walk, like · **To what, where:** word This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home)» 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 (Badger, friend), 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:8 # text = The Badger promises to pass the word around: any friend of his can walk where he likes. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Badger badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 promises promise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 around around ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound:prt 9 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 10 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 11 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 16 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 15 advmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 likes like VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 19 . . 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 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | the Badger | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **pass around** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Badger *not said here* | the word | | | | around *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Trajectory | | 3 | **walk** | can | Badger's friend | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **like** | present | Badger | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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: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): 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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