--- title: Badger: «just let us once get past the stoats, with those detestable… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: Badger: «just let us once get past the stoats, with those detestable guns of theirs, and I assure you we shan't want any swords or pistols. Who acts: you, us, Otter, we. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/30/) [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/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/) / 30 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»), sentence 30 Badger: «just let us once get past the stoats, with those detestable guns of theirs, and I assure you we shan't want any swords or pistols. **Who acts:** you, us, Otter, we · **What happens:** let, get, assure, not want · **To what, where:** us, stoats, you, swords · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»)» 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, us, Otter, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:30 # text = Badger: «just let us once get past the stoats, with those detestable guns of theirs, and I assure you we shan't want any swords or pistols. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Badger badger NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 dep _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 8 advmod _ _ 8 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 past past ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 stoats stoat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 15 detestable detestable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 guns gun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 theirs their PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 assure assure VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 sha shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 want want VERB VB Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 28 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 29 swords sword NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=29:cc 31 pistols pistol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | us | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | the stoats | | with that detestable guns of guns; once *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme past stoat=Destination | | 3 | **assure** *in a quote* | present | Otter | | you | | | | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | shall | we | any swords or pistols | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sword=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:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:30`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, 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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