--- title: To quiet naughty babies they said «the terrible grey Badger would up… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: To quiet naughty babies they said «the terrible grey Badger would up and get them» — «a base libel on Badger, who, though he cared little about Society, was rather fond of children» (a base libel = a mean, untrue thing said about someone). Who acts: babies, Badger, untrue thing. 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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 (babies, Badger, untrue thing), 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:35 # text = To quiet naughty babies they said «the terrible grey Badger would up and get them» — «a base libel on Badger, who, though he cared little about Society, was rather fond of children» (a base libel = a mean, untrue thing said about someone). # 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 ×5 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 quiet quiet VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 3 naughty naughty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 grey grey NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 up up ADV RB _ 6 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 18 — - PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 libel libel NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 28 though though SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 cared care VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 31 little little ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 about about ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Society Society PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 rather rather ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 fond fond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 acl:relcl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 40 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 44 punct _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 libel libel NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 parataxis _ _ 45 = = PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 mean mean NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 untrue untrue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 51 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 conj _ _ 52 about about ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 51 obl _ _ 54 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 44 punct _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **quiet** | to-infinitive | babies *= baby* *not said here* | naughty babies | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | babies *= baby* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | babies *= baby* *not said here* | babies *= baby* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 4 | **care** *in a quote* | past | Badger | | | | | about Society; little *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about society=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Badger | | | | | of children; fond *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | untrue thing | | | | | about someone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:35`. **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 ×5. **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,…, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/34/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/)