--- title: The Rat tells him «You needn't ‘sir’ me quite so much». — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat tells him «You needn't ‘sir’ me quite so much». Who acts: Rat, Badger. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/) / 36 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs), sentence 36 The Rat tells him «You needn't ‘sir’ me quite so much». **Who acts:** Rat, Badger · **What happens:** tell, not need · **To what, where:** Badger, sir · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs)» 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 (Rat, Badger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson:36 # text = The Rat tells him «You needn't ‘sir’ me quite so much». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 6 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 9 ‘ ‘ PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 sir sir NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 13 quite quite ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 14 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 much much ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Rat | | Badger | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **need** *in a quote* | present | Badger | sir | | | | | tree rules | 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:038-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs.lesson:36`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/35/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/37/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/)