--- title: The Badger: «Toad has at last seen the error of his ways … he has un… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The Badger: «Toad has at last seen the error of his ways … he has undertaken (promised) to give up motor-cars entirely and for ever.» Who acts: Badger, Toad, ways. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom)» o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/21/) [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 VI, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/) / 21 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 21 The Badger: «Toad has at last seen the error of his ways … he has undertaken (promised) to give up motor-cars entirely and for ever.» **Who acts:** Badger, Toad, ways · **What happens:** see, undertake, promise, give up, err · **To what, where:** error, ways, motor cars This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom)» 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 (Badger, Toad, ways), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.lesson:21 # text = The Badger: «Toad has at last seen the error of his ways … he has undertaken (promised) to give up motor-cars entirely and for ever.» # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Badger badger NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obl _ _ 9 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 error error NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 … … PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 undertaken undertake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 20 promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 parataxis _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 28 entirely entirely ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 28 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Badger | the error of Toad's ways | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer error=Stimulus | | 2 | **undertake** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Toad | Toad's ways *not said here* | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | | 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Toad *not said here* | motor cars | | | | entirely *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Source | | 5 | **err** *in a quote* | | Toad's ways | | | | | | nom error «act intransitive»: of=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. **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:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.lesson:21`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/19/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/)