--- title: The Rat is amazed, and dreamily tells him there is nothing «half so… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat is amazed, and dreamily tells him there is nothing «half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats» — and crashes into the bank while he says it. Who acts: Rat, nothing. 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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, nothing), 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:9 # text = The Rat is amazed, and dreamily tells him there is nothing «half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats» — and crashes into the bank while he says it. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 amazed amazed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 dreamily dreamily ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 8 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj 10 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 11 expl _ _ 11 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 nsubj _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 12 conj _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 much much ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 18 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 20 simply simply ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 messing mess VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 22 about about ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 26 — - PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 crashes crash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 while while SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **is** | present | the Rat | | | | | amazed *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Rat *not said here* | | Rat | | | dreamily *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **be** | present | nothing | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | nothing *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mess about** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | boats | | simply *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **crash** | present | | | | | | into the bank *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into bank=Result | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Rat | boat | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:9`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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