--- title: Toad, says the Badger, keeps saying «O leave him alone, he wants not… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: Toad, says the Badger, keeps saying «O leave him alone, he wants nothing, perhaps he'll be better presently, it may pass off in time, don't be unduly anxious». Who acts: Toad, key. 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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 (Toad, key), 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:14 # text = Toad, says the Badger, keeps saying «O leave him alone, he wants nothing, perhaps he'll be better presently, it may pass off in time, don't be unduly anxious». # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Badger badger NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 O o INTJ UH _ 11 discourse _ _ 11 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 alone alone ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 17 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 19 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 21 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 23 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 24 presently presently ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 parataxis _ _ 29 off off ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux _ _ 34 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 cop _ _ 36 unduly unduly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 parataxis _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Toad | the Badger | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent badger=Topic | | 2 | **keep** | present | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Toad | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Toad | nothing | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | future | Toad | | | | | perhaps, presently, well *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **pass off** *in a quote* | may | key | | | | time | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | anxious, unduly *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:14`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/12/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/)