--- title: Badger finishes his cheese, stands by the fire and asks Toad what hi… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Badger finishes his cheese, stands by the fire and asks Toad what his father, Badger's old friend, would have said. Who acts: Badger, father. 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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 (Badger, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:13 # text = Badger finishes his cheese, stands by the fire and asks Toad what his father, Badger's old friend, would have said. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.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 1 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 finishes finish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 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 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 iobj _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 24 obj _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 22 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux _ _ 24 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 ccomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 | **finish** | present | Badger | Badger's cheese | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector cheese=Eventuality | | 2 | **stand** | present | Badger *not said here* | | | | | by the fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Badger *not said here* | | Toad | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent toad=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | would · perfect | Badger's father | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | 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:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:13`. **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. **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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