--- title: It is «a wonderful thing» that the Badger «should pay a formal call… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: It is «a wonderful thing» that the Badger «should pay a formal call on them, or indeed on anybody»; usually you had to catch him along a hedgerow or hunt him up in his house in the Wood. Who acts: opening, Badger, 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 (opening, Badger, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.lesson:17 # text = It is «a wonderful thing» that the Badger «should pay a formal call on them, or indeed on anybody»; usually you had to catch him along a hedgerow or hunt him up in his house in the Wood. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Badger badger NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 21 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 anybody anybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 conj _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 usually usually ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 along along ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 hedgerow hedgerow NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 up up ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 Wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | opening | a wonderful thing | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pay** *in a quote* | should | the Badger | a formal call | | | | on things *= thing* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Asset | | 3 | **have** | past | you | | | | | usually *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **catch** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Badger | | | | along a hedgerow | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **hunt up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Badger | | Badger's house in the Wood | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in house=Location | 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:045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.lesson:17`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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 VI, p…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad/15/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad/)