--- title: He is so happy that he knocks over a fussy old rabbit who wants sixp… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: He is so happy that he knocks over a fussy old rabbit who wants sixpence to let him pass, and runs on through the fields while everyone else is busy. Who acts: Mole, fussy old rabbit, sixpence, everyone. 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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 (Mole, fussy old rabbit, sixpence, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:2 # text = He is so happy that he knocks over a fussy old rabbit who wants sixpence to let him pass, and runs on through the fields while everyone else is busy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 knocks knock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 8 over over ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 fussy fussy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 sixpence sixpence NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 through through ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 31 nsubj _ _ 29 else else ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Mole | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **knock over** | present | Mole | a fussy old rabbit | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent rabbit=Patient | | 3 | **want** | present | a fussy old rabbit | sixpence | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **let** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sixpence *not said here* | Mole | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pass** | infinitive | Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **run** | present | Mole *not said here* | | | the fields | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on field=Trajectory | | 7 | **is** | present | everyone | | | | | busy *property* | 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:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:2`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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