--- title: To Otter: «Badger's was the mastermind; the Mole and the Water Rat b… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: To Otter: «Badger's was the mastermind; the Mole and the Water Rat bore the brunt of the fighting; I merely served in the ranks and did little or nothing.» (bore the brunt = took the hardest part; served in the ranks = was an ordinary soldier) Who acts: Badger, Mole, Hero. 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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, Mole, Hero), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:21 # text = To Otter: «Badger's was the mastermind; the Mole and the Water Rat bore the brunt of the fighting; I merely served in the ranks and did little or nothing.» (bore the brunt = took the hardest part; served in the ranks = was an ordinary soldier) # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 To to ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 5 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 mastermind mastermind NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Water Water PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nsubj 17 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 brunt brunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fighting fighting NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 merely merely ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 served serve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ranks rank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 32 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_ 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 38 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 brunt brunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 = = PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 42 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 hardest hard ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 45 amod _ _ 45 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 46 ; ; PUNCT : _ 47 punct _ _ 47 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 acl _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 ranks rank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obl _ _ 51 = = PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 52 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 cop _ _ 53 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 54 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 56 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Badger | the mastermind | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bear** *in a quote* | past | the Mole and the Water Rat | the brunt of the fighting | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brunt=Patient | | 3 | **serve** *in a quote* | past | Hero | | | | | in the ranks; merely *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in rank=Attribute | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Hero *not said here* | little | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Eventuality | | 5 | **bear** | past | | the brunt | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brunt=Patient | | 6 | **take** | past | | the hardest part | Otter | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent part=Theme to otter=Destination | | 7 | **serve** | participle | | the hardest part *not said here* | | | | in the ranks | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in rank=Attribute | | 8 | **is a** | past | | a ordinary soldier | | | | | 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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:21`. **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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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