--- title: Mole and Badger were telling stories by the fire in the smoking-room… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Mole and Badger were telling stories by the fire in the smoking-room; «They were unarmed, and taken by surprise, and what can two animals do against hundreds?» They were beaten with sticks and turned out into the cold and wet. Who acts: Mole, two animals. 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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 (Mole, two animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.lesson:18 # text = Mole and Badger were telling stories by the fire in the smoking-room; «They were unarmed, and taken by surprise, and what can two animals do against hundreds?» They were beaten with sticks and turned out into the cold and wet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 smoking smoking NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 « « SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 unarmed unarmed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 27 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 31 obj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:aux 29 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 against against ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 34 ? ? PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ 35 » » SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 advcl _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 43 out out ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 into into ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 obl _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 conj _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · progressive | Mole and Badger | stories | | | | by the fire in the smoking room | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Mole | | | | | unarmed *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | participle | Mole *not said here* | | | | | by surprise | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | can | two animals | | | | | against hundreds | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 5 | **beat** | past · passive | | Mole | | | | with sticks | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with stick=Instrument | | 6 | **turn out** | past | Mole *not said here* | | | the cold | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:066-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall.lesson:18`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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 XI, p…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/17/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/)