--- title: But Badger explains: Toad has to live here and be respected, not be… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: But Badger explains: Toad has to live here and be respected, not be a laughing-stock for the weasels. Who acts: Badger, Toad. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» of the books cour --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/15/) [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/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/) / 15 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 15 But Badger explains: Toad has to live here and be respected, not be a laughing-stock for the weasels. **Who acts:** Badger, Toad · **What happens:** explain, have, live, respect, not be · **To what, where:** laughing stock · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» 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, Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:15 # text = But Badger explains: Toad has to live here and be respected, not be a laughing-stock for the weasels. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 respected respect VERB VBN VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 laughing laughing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 stock stock NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 weasels weasel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | Badger | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | present | Toad | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | Toad *not said here* | | | here | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **respect** | infinitive · passive | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | | 5 | **not** **is a** | infinitive | | a laughing stock | | | | for the weasels | tree rules | 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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:15`. **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): 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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