The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 9
The Badger beams — that's exactly what he thinks!
Who acts: that, Badger · What happens: be, think
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground)» 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 (that, Badger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beams | det |
| 2 | Badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beams | compound |
| 3 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 beams | punct |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 what | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | cop |
| 7 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 8 what | advmod |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 beams | parataxis |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thinks | nsubj |
| 10 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 beams | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | exactly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | Badger | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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.
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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): no change. 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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