--- title: «The Badger looked at him very suspiciously, but Toad's frank, open… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: «The Badger looked at him very suspiciously, but Toad's frank, open countenance made it difficult to suggest any unworthy motive» (countenance = face; motive = reason for doing something). Who acts: Badger, frank open countenance, altar, reason. 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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 (Badger, frank open countenance, altar, reason), 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:22 # text = «The Badger looked at him very suspiciously, but Toad's frank, open countenance made it difficult to suggest any unworthy motive» (countenance = face; motive = reason for doing something). # 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): R5-strong ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 suspiciously suspiciously ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 frank frank ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 countenance countenance NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 17 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj 19 difficult difficult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 suggest suggest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det 23 unworthy unworthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:amod 24 motive motive NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:compound 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 27 countenance countenance NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 28 = = SYM SYM _ 29 punct _ _ 29 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 motive motive NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 32 = = PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 34 for for SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 36 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 35 obj _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** *in a quote* | past | the Badger | | | | | at Toad; suspiciously *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | | 2 | **make** *in a quote* | past | Toad's frank open countenance | altar | | | | difficult *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | altar *not said here* | any unworthy motive | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent motive=Topic | | 4 | **do** | gerund | reason *not said here* | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | 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. 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