--- title: «You backsliding animal» cries the Badger (backsliding = slipping ba… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: «You backsliding animal» cries the Badger (backsliding = slipping back into bad ways). Who acts: Badger. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/28/) [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 VI, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/) / 28 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 28 «You backsliding animal» cries the Badger (backsliding = slipping back into bad ways). **Who acts:** Badger · **What happens:** backslide, cry, slip back · **To what, where:** bad ways · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom)» 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), 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:28 # text = «You backsliding animal» cries the Badger (backsliding = slipping back into bad ways). # 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 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 appos _ _ 3 backsliding backslide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 amod _ _ 4 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 vocative _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 cries cry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Badger badger NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 10 backsliding backslide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 appos _ _ 11 = = PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 slipping slip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 parataxis _ _ 13 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **backslide** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | the Badger | | | | | backsliding animal *vocative* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **backslide** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **slip back** | gerund | | | | bad ways | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:28`. **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. **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…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/27/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/)