--- title: The Badger's warning: «When Toad's quiet and submissive and playing… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The Badger's warning: «When Toad's quiet and submissive and playing at being the hero of a Sunday-school prize, then he's at his artfullest. Who acts: Toad, Badger. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets)» of th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/15/) [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/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/) / 15 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets), sentence 15 The Badger's warning: «When Toad's quiet and submissive and playing at being the hero of a Sunday-school prize, then he's at his artfullest. **Who acts:** Toad, Badger · **What happens:** be, play, warn · **To what, where:** Toad, hero This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr. Toad (the doctor, the lawyer, and the rope of sheets)» 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 (Toad, Badger), 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:15 # text = The Badger's warning: «When Toad's quiet and submissive and playing at being the hero of a Sunday-school prize, then he's at his artfullest. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 7 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 8 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 10 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 advcl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 submissive submissive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 15 at at SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 16 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 cop _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl 19 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 21 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:compound 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 prize prize NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 28 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 artfullest artfull ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 parataxis _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | Toad | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **play** *in a quote* | gerund | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | gerund | Toad *not said here* | the hero | | | | of a school prize | tree rules | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Toad | | | | then | artfull *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **warn** | | the Badger | | | | | | nom warning «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:047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.lesson:15`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/14/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/)