--- title: Mole and Badger were sitting by the fire, unarmed and taken by surpr… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Mole and Badger were sitting by the fire, unarmed and taken by surprise; there were hundreds against two. Who acts: Mole, hundreds. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken bo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/4/) [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 XI, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/) / 4 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat), sentence 4 Mole and Badger were sitting by the fire, unarmed and taken by surprise; there were hundreds against two. **Who acts:** Mole, hundreds · **What happens:** sit, take, be This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat)» 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 (Mole, hundreds), 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:4 # text = Mole and Badger were sitting by the fire, unarmed and taken by surprise; there were hundreds against two. # 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): 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 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 unarmed unarmed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 17 expl _ _ 17 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 19 against against ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | Mole and Badger | | | | | by the fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location | | 2 | **take** | participle | Mole and Badger *not said here* | | | | | by surprise | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **be** | past | hundreds against two | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «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:4`. **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): 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. 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