--- title: The Badger warns him at the door: when Toad is quiet and meek, playi… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The Badger warns him at the door: when Toad is quiet and meek, playing the good little hero of a Sunday-school prize book, that's when he is at his trickiest. Who acts: Badger, Toad, that. 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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 (Badger, Toad, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.lesson:1 # text = The Badger warns him at the door: when Toad is quiet and meek, playing the good little hero of a Sunday-school prize book, that's when he is at his trickiest. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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 warns warn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 10 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 meek meek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 23 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:compound 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 prize prize NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 nsubj _ _ 30 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 trickiest tricky ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 advcl _ _ 37 . . 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 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | the Badger | | Toad | the door | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | present | Toad | | | | | quiet *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **play** | gerund | Toad *not said here* | the good little hero of a prize book | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Theme | | 5 | **be** | present | that | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | Toad | | | | | tricky *property* | tree rules | 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:047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.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, 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. 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