--- title: Badger: «There are more ways of getting back a place than taking it… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Badger: «There are more ways of getting back a place than taking it by storm.» (taking by storm = attacking with force) Who acts: more ways. 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!»)» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/42/) [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/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/) / 42 # 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 42 Badger: «There are more ways of getting back a place than taking it by storm.» (taking by storm = attacking with force) **Who acts:** more ways · **What happens:** be, get back, take, attack · **To what, where:** more ways, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (more ways), 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:42 # text = Badger: «There are more ways of getting back a place than taking it by storm.» (taking by storm = attacking with force) # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Badger badger NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 4 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ _ 8 of of SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 back back ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 than than SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 21 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 = = SYM SYM _ 25 punct _ _ 25 attacking attack VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | more ways | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get back** *in a quote* | gerund | more ways *not said here* | a place | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | gerund | more ways *not said here* | place | | | | by storm | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **take** | gerund | | | | | | by storm | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **attack** | gerund | | | | | | with force | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: 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:42`. **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, R7-rel-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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