--- title: Badger: «We're going to let bygones be bygones, and try and turn ove… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Badger: «We're going to let bygones be bygones, and try and turn over a new leaf.» (let bygones be bygones = forget past quarrels; turn over a new leaf = start behaving better) Who acts: We, bygones, past quarrels. 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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 (We, bygones, past quarrels), 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:40 # text = Badger: «We're going to let bygones be bygones, and try and turn over a new leaf.» (let bygones be bygones = forget past quarrels; turn over a new leaf = start behaving better) # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Badger badger NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 dep _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 4 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 bygones bygone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 bygones bygone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 try try VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp 17 over over ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 25 bygones bygone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 27 bygones bygone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 xcomp _ _ 28 = = SYM SYM _ 6 punct _ _ 29 forget forget VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 30 past past ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 quarrels quarrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 turn turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 34 over over ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 38 = = PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 39 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 behaving behave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 xcomp _ _ 41 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 parataxis _ _ 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | We | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **let** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | bygones | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bygone=Theme | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | bygones *not said here* | bygones | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **turn over** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a new leaf | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | | 6 | **let** | infinitive | | bygones | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bygone=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | infinitive | We *not said here* | bygones | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **forget** | infinitive | | past quarrels | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **turn over** | participle | past quarrels *not said here* | a new leaf | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | | 10 | **behave** | gerund | bygones *not said here* | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | 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:40`. **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): R7-rel-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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