The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground), sentence 25

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).

Who acts: Badger, hedgehogs, old polite way, we, caps · What happens: give, leave, greet, not sort, swing, touch · To what, where: hedgehogs, betters, people, forelocks

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground)» 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, hedgehogs, old polite way, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Badger	det
2	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hedgehogs	det
5	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gives	obj
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 apiece	punct
7	sixpence	sixpence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 apiece	compound
8	apiece	apiece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hedgehogs	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pat	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pat	det
11	pat	pat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hedgehogs	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 head	det
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pat	nmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 hedgehogs	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 leave	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 leave	nsubj
18	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gives	parataxis
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 swinging	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 swinging	case
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 swinging	amod
22	respectful	respectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 swinging	amod
23	swinging	swinging	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 leave	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 caps	case
25	caps	cap	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 swinging	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 touching	cc
27	touching	touching	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 swinging	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 forelocks	case
29	forelocks	forelock	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 touching	nmod
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 swinging	punct
31	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 way	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 way	det
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 way	amod
34	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 way	amod
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	obl
36	of	of	SCONJ	_	37 greeting	mark
37	greeting	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 way	acl
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 betters	nmod:poss
39	«	«	PUNCT	_	40 betters	punct
40	betters	better	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 greeting	obj
41	»	»	PUNCT	_	40 betters	punct
42	—	-	PUNCT	_	47 sort	punct
43	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 sort	obl:unmarked
44	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 sort	nsubj
45	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 sort	aux
46	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 sort	advmod
47	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gives	parataxis
48	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 sort	obj
49	into	into	ADP	_	50 betters	case
50	betters	better	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 sort	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 folk	cc
52	lesser	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	53 folk	amod
53	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 betters	conj
54	)	)	PUNCT	_	47 sort	punct
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gives	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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, 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.

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