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title: Badger carried «a dark lantern» (a lantern with a cover to hide the… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Badger carried «a dark lantern» (a lantern with a cover to hide the light) and set the order: «Mole first, 'cos I'm very pleased with him; Rat next; Toad last.» Who acts: Badger. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the d
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»), sentence 23

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Badger carried «a dark lantern» (a lantern with a cover to hide the light) and set the order: «Mole first, 'cos I'm very pleased with him; Rat next; Toad last.»

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**Who acts:** Badger · **What happens:** carry, hide, set, be · **To what, where:** dark lantern, light, order

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»)» 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 (Badger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:23
# text = Badger carried «a dark lantern» (a lantern with a cover to hide the light) and set the order: «Mole first, 'cos I'm very pleased with him; Rat next; Toad last.»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.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 ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4
1	Badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
6	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
20	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
25	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
29	cos	because	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	very	very	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
38	next	next	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	Toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
41	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
43	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	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 | **carry** | past | Badger | a dark lantern |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | to-infinitive | Badger *not said here* | the light |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient |
| 3 | **set** | infinitive | Badger *not said here* | the order |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient order=Result |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Badger |  |  |  |  | with Badger; pleased *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:23`.

**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 ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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