The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen), sentence 24

Badger «never said, “I told you so”» or that they ought to have done something else.

Who acts: Badger, I, animals · What happens: not say, tell, ought, do · To what, where: you, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen)» 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, I, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 said	advmod
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	so	so	ADV	_	8 told	advmod
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 ought	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 ought	cc
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 ought	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ought	nsubj
16	ought	ought	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	19 done	mark
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 done	aux
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 ought	xcomp
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 done	obj
21	else	else	ADV	_	20 something	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not say speech: assert in a quote	past	Badger			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	past	I		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	ought	present	animals = animal			tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive · perfect	animals = animal 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, 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:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.lesson:24.

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): 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.

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