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title: «Under severe compulsion from the Badger» the barge-woman was found… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Under severe compulsion from the Badger» the barge-woman was found and paid the value of her horse; Toad «kicked terribly at this» and still called her rude names — the old Toad had not quite gone. Who acts: Toad, rude names, old Toad, woman. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapt
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# 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 29

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«Under severe compulsion from the Badger» the barge-woman was found and paid the value of her horse; Toad «kicked terribly at this» and still called her rude names — the old Toad had not quite gone.

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**Who acts:** Toad, rude names, old Toad, woman · **What happens:** find, pay, kick, call, not go, value · **To what, where:** barge woman, severe compulsion, value, horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Toad, rude names, old Toad, woman), 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:29
# text = «Under severe compulsion from the Badger» the barge-woman was found and paid the value of her horse; Toad «kicked terribly at this» and still called her rude names — the old Toad had not quite gone.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
2	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	compulsion	compulsion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	barge	barge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct
23	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
26	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	obl	_	_
29	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	still	still	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
36	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=43:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
42	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	parataxis	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · passive |  | the barge woman |  | severe compulsion from the Badger |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | past |  | the value of woman's horse |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Asset |
| 3 | **kick** *in a quote* | past | Toad |  |  |  |  | at this; terribly *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at this=Patient |
| 4 | **call** | past | woman's rude names |  |  |  | still |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | the old Toad |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **value** |  |  | woman's horse |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **name** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:29`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/).

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