--- title: «He'll say anything.» Through the door they hear the Badger's voice… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: «He'll say anything.» Through the door they hear the Badger's voice droning on and on, and then — long sobs from Toad. Who acts: Rat, they, voice. 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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 (Rat, they, voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.lesson:1 # text = «He'll say anything.» Through the door they hear the Badger's voice droning on and on, and then — long sobs from Toad. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 8 Through through ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 droning drone VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 on on ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 on on ADV RB _ 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 24 — - PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 sobs sob NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | Rat | anything | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hear** | present | they | the Badger's voice | | the door | | long sobs from Toad *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 3 | **drone** | gerund | the Badger's voice *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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