--- title: Badger thought they were attacked from behind and «drew a pistol, an… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: Badger thought they were attacked from behind and «drew a pistol, and was on the point of putting a bullet into Toad» — but stopped when he saw what had happened. Who acts: Badger, point. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for batt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/27/) [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 XII,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/) / 27 # 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 27 Badger thought they were attacked from behind and «drew a pistol, and was on the point of putting a bullet into Toad» — but stopped when he saw what had happened. **Who acts:** Badger, point · **What happens:** think, attack, draw, be, put, stop · **To what, where:** Mole, pistol, point, bullet · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, point), 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:27 # text = Badger thought they were attacked from behind and «drew a pistol, and was on the point of putting a bullet into Toad» — but stopped when he saw what had happened. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 attacked attack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 5 obl _ _ 7 behind behind ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 10 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 pistol pistol NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl 19 of of SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 putting put VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bullet bullet NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Toad toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 26 — - PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 31 advmod _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 32 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 34 nsubj _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 ccomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Badger | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **attack** | past · passive | | Mole | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **draw** *in a quote* | past | Badger *not said here* | a pistol | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pistol=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Badger *not said here* | | | the point | | | tree rules | | 5 | **put** *in a quote* | gerund | the point *not said here* | a bullet | | | | into Toad | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bullet=Goal | | 6 | **stop** | past | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **see** | past | Badger | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **happen** | past · perfect | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:27`. **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, R8-pos-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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