--- title: The Badger asks Toad to repeat his promise in front of his friends. — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The Badger asks Toad to repeat his promise in front of his friends. Who acts: Badger, Toad. 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 dependency tree and --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 4 The Badger asks Toad to repeat his promise in front of his friends. **Who acts:** Badger, Toad · **What happens:** ask, repeat, promise · **To what, where:** Toad, promise, front 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, Toad), 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:4 # text = The Badger asks Toad to repeat his promise in front of his friends. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 repeat repeat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Badger | | Toad | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent toad=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **repeat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Badger *not said here* | Toad's promise | | front of Toad's friends | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality | | 3 | **promise** | | Toad | | | | | | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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:4`. **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): 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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/3/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/)