--- title: He met a rabbit «cleaning his silly face with his paws», and «had to… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: He met a rabbit «cleaning his silly face with his paws», and «had to cuff his head once or twice» (cuff = hit with an open paw) to get any sense out of him. Who acts: Badger. 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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 (Badger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:18 # text = He met a rabbit «cleaning his silly face with his paws», and «had to cuff his head once or twice» (cuff = hit with an open paw) to get any sense out of him. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 6 cleaning clean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 cuff cuff VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 19 advmod _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 22 conj _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 27 cuff cuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 28 = = PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 37 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 out out ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | past | Badger | a rabbit | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Co-Agent | | 2 | **clean** *in a quote* | gerund | Badger *not said here* | Badger's silly face | | | | with Badger's paws | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent face=Patient with paw=Instrument | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Badger *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **cuff** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Badger *not said here* | Badger's head | | | | once *property* | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 5 | **hit** | infinitive | Badger *not said here* | | | | | with a open paw | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with paw=Instrument | | 6 | **get** | to-infinitive | Badger *not said here* | any sense | | | | out Badger | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sense=Stimulus | 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:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:18`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/17/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/)