--- title: Badger and the Rat kept «staring at each other with their mouths ope… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: Badger and the Rat kept «staring at each other with their mouths open; and this gave him the greatest satisfaction». Who acts: Badger, this. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the boo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/26/) [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/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/) / 26 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book), sentence 26 Badger and the Rat kept «staring at each other with their mouths open; and this gave him the greatest satisfaction». **Who acts:** Badger, this · **What happens:** keep, stare, give · **To what, where:** greatest satisfaction, Badger This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» 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, this), 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:26 # text = Badger and the Rat kept «staring at each other with their mouths open; and this gave him the greatest satisfaction». # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 staring stare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 xcomp _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 7 obl _ _ 10 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 fixed _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 14 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 nsubj _ _ 18 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 satisfaction satisfaction NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | Badger and the Rat | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stare** *in a quote* | gerund | Badger and the Rat *not said here* | | | | | with things's mouths; at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | | 3 | **give** *in a quote* | past | this | the greatest satisfaction | Badger | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient satisfaction=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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:26`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/25/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/)