--- title: The Chairman of the Bench of Magistrates (the judges of a local cour… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The Chairman of the Bench of Magistrates (the judges of a local court) calls Toad «the incorrigible rogue and hardened ruffian» (incorrigible = can't be made better) and asks how to «make it sufficiently hot» for him. Who acts: Chairman. 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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 (Chairman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:25 # text = The Chairman of the Bench of Magistrates (the judges of a local court) calls Toad «the incorrigible rogue and hardened ruffian» (incorrigible = can't be made better) and asks how to «make it sufficiently hot» for him. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Chairman chairman NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Bench bench PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Magistrates magistrate PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 judges judge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 16 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 incorrigible incorrigible NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 rogue rogue NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 hardened harden VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 ruffian ruffian NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 27 incorrigible incorrigible NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 parataxis _ _ 28 = = SYM SYM _ 21 punct _ _ 29 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 30 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 33 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 xcomp _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 37 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 39 « « PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 40 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 sufficiently sufficiently ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ _ 44 » » PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=46:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 45 for for ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 16 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 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | the Chairman of the Bench of Magistrates | | Toad | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toad=Recipient | | 2 | **harden** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **not** **make** | can · passive | | incorrigible *not said here* | | | | good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Chairman of the Bench of Magistrates *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **make** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Chairman of the Bench of Magistrates *not said here* | incorrigible | | | | for Toad; hot *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for he=Beneficiary | 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:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:25`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/24/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/)