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title: Badger: «What do you think your father, my old friend, would have sa… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: Badger: «What do you think your father, my old friend, would have said if he had been here to-night, and had known of all your goings on?» Who acts: you, Badger, your. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pi
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»), sentence 39

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Badger: «What do you think your father, my old friend, would have said if he had been here to-night, and had known of all your goings on?»

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**Who acts:** you, Badger, your · **What happens:** think, say, be, know, go · **To what, where:** Badger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (loyal friends, cold pie and «Be quiet at once!»)» 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 (you, Badger, your), 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:39
# text = Badger: «What do you think your father, my old friend, would have said if he had been here to-night, and had known of all your goings on?»
# 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): no change
1	Badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
4	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
22	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	parataxis	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	goings	going	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
36	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | Badger |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme father=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | would · perfect | Badger |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect | Badger |  |  |  | night | here *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** *in a quote* | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of your goings | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of going=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom going «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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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