--- title: The Rat rows across in a little blue-and-white boat, helps the Mole… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat rows across in a little blue-and-white boat, helps the Mole in, and the Mole admits he has never been in a boat before. Who acts: Rat, Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat)» of the bo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/8/) [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 I, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/) / 8 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 8 The Rat rows across in a little blue-and-white boat, helps the Mole in, and the Mole admits he has never been in a boat before. **Who acts:** Rat, Mole · **What happens:** row, help, admit, have, not be · **To what, where:** little blue boat, Mole, boat · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat)» 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 (Rat, Mole), 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:8 # text = The Rat rows across in a little blue-and-white boat, helps the Mole in, and the Mole admits he has never been in a boat before. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rows row VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 across across ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 8 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 13 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 in in ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 admits admit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 26 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 27 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 cop _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 31 before before ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **row** | present | the Rat | | | a little blue boat | | across *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **help** | present | the Rat *not said here* | the Mole | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Beneficiary | | 3 | **admit** *speech: other* | present | the Mole | | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** | present | Mole | | | | | before *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **is** | participle | | | | a boat | | | 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. 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