--- title: They hear «the long continuous drone of the Badger's voice, rising a… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: They hear «the long continuous drone of the Badger's voice, rising and falling in waves of oratory» (oratory = speech-making); then «long-drawn sobs» from Toad, «a soft-hearted and affectionate fellow, very easily converted—for the time being—to any point of view». 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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 (fits, long continuous drone), 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:19 # text = They hear «the long continuous drone of the Badger's voice, rising and falling in waves of oratory» (oratory = speech-making); then «long-drawn sobs» from Toad, «a soft-hearted and affectionate fellow, very easily converted—for the time being—to any point of view». # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 continuous continuous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 drone drone NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl 8 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 rising rise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 oratory oratory NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 23 oratory oratory NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 24 = = SYM SYM _ 23 case _ _ 25 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 making making NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 32 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 35 sobs sob NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 37 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 « « PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 42 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:compound 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ _ 44 hearted heart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 affectionate affectionate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:amod 47 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 very very ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 50 easily easily ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 51 converted converted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:conj 52 — - PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 53 for for ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ _ 56 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 57 cop _ _ 57 — — ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 conj _ _ 58 to to ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 60 det _ _ 60 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ _ 61 of of ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 62 view view NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nmod _ _ 63 » » PUNCT '' _ 57 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=57:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ 64 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | fits *= fit* | the long continuous drone of the Badger's voice | | | | drawn sobs from Toad *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer drone=Stimulus | | 2 | **rise** *in a quote* | gerund | the long continuous drone of the Badger's voice *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fall** *in a quote* | gerund | the long continuous drone of the Badger's voice *not said here* | | | waves of oratory | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in wave=Location | | 4 | **draw** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | then | long *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund | fits *= fit* *not said here* | | | | time | to any point of view; — *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **wave** *in a quote* | | | oratory | | | | | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **point** *in a quote* | | | view | | | | | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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. 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