--- title: Mole goes out to check on the stoat sentries; Badger wants supper, a… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: Mole goes out to check on the stoat sentries; Badger wants supper, and Toad, a little hurt that nobody praises him, hunts out cold chicken, trifle and lobster salad. Who acts: Mole, Badger, nobody, Toad. 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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 (Mole, Badger, nobody, Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.lesson:7 # text = Mole goes out to check on the stoat sentries; Badger wants supper, and Toad, a little hurt that nobody praises him, hunts out cold chicken, trifle and lobster salad. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 stoat stoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 sentries sentry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 13 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 16 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 hurt hurt NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 23 nsubj _ _ 23 praises praise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 hunts hunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 28 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 trifle trifle NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 lobster lobster NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 salad salad NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=31:conj 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go out** | present | Mole | | | | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **check** | to-infinitive | Mole *not said here* | | | the stoat sentries | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sentry=Location | | 3 | **want** | present | Badger | supper | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot supper=Theme | | 4 | **praise** | present | nobody | Mole | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **hunt out** | present | Toad | cold chicken and trifle and lobster salad | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=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:071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.lesson:7`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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