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 35

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 · What happens: quiet, say, get, care, be · To what, where: naughty babies, babies · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (babies, Badger, untrue thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

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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