--- title: When the Rat asks «Would you like to come over?», the Mole answers «… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: When the Rat asks «Would you like to come over?», the Mole answers «rather pettishly» (a bit crossly) «Oh, it's all very well to talk», because he is new to the river and cannot see how to get across. Who acts: Rat, you, Mole, sinuous. 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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 (Rat, you, Mole, sinuous), 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:24 # text = When the Rat asks «Would you like to come over?», the Mole answers «rather pettishly» (a bit crossly) «Oh, it's all very well to talk», because he is new to the river and cannot see how to get across. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 Would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 over over ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 rather rather ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 pettishly pettishly ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:parataxis 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 crossly crossly ADV RB _ 20 conj _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 28 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 36 discourse _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 31 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 32 all all ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 33 very very ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 because because SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 47 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 48 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 49 advmod _ _ 49 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 conj _ _ 50 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 52 advmod _ _ 51 to to PART TO _ 52 mark _ _ 52 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 ccomp _ _ 53 across across ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Rat | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **like** *in a quote* | would | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **come over** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | over *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | the Mole | | | | | pettishly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | sinuous | | | | | all, talk, well *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | Mole | | | | | to the river; new *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **see** | can | Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **get** | to-infinitive | | | | | | across *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:24`. **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. **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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