--- title: The Badger gives the hedgehogs «sixpence apiece and a pat on the hea… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The Badger gives the hedgehogs «sixpence apiece and a pat on the head»; they leave «with much respectful swinging of caps and touching of forelocks» (the old polite way of greeting your «betters» — today we don't sort people into betters and lesser folk). 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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, hedgehogs, old polite way, we), 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:25 # text = The Badger gives the hedgehogs «sixpence apiece and a pat on the head»; they leave «with much respectful swinging of caps and touching of forelocks» (the old polite way of greeting your «betters» — today we don't sort people into betters and lesser folk). # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 hedgehogs hedgehog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 sixpence sixpence NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 apiece apiece NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 pat pat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 respectful respectful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 swinging swinging NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:parataxis 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 caps cap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 touching touching NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 forelocks forelock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 36 of of SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 greeting greet VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 acl _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 « « PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 40 betters better NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 41 » » PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 42 — - PUNCT : _ 47 punct _ _ 43 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl:unmarked _ _ 44 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 45 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 46 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 47 sort sort VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 48 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ _ 49 into into ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 betters better NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obl _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 52 lesser less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 53 amod _ _ 53 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ _ 54 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 47 punct _ _ 55 . . 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 | **give** | present | the Badger | the hedgehogs and sixpence apiece and a pat on the head | | | | the old polite way *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Theme | | 2 | **leave** | present | hedgehogs *= hedgehog* | | | | | with much respectful swinging of caps and touching of forelocks | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with swinging=Theme | | 3 | **greet** *speech: greet* | gerund | the old polite way *not said here* | your betters | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent better=Theme | | 4 | **not** **sort** | present · do-support | we | people | | | today | into betters and lesser folk *goal* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent people=Theme into better=Goal | | 5 | **swing** *in a quote* | | caps | | | | | | nom swinging «act intransitive»: of=agent | | 6 | **touch** *in a quote* | | | forelocks | | | | | nom touching «event transitive»: of=patient | 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:25`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/24/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/)