--- title: Before they set off, the Rat climbs up into his hole and comes back… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Before they set off, the Rat climbs up into his hole and comes back staggering under a fat wicker picnic basket. Who acts: they, Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World)» of the books course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood/0/) [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/26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood/) / 0 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 0 Before they set off, the Rat climbs up into his hole and comes back staggering under a fat wicker picnic basket. **Who acts:** they, Rat · **What happens:** set off, climb up, come back, stagger · **To what, where:** hole, wicker picnic basket This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World)» 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 (they, Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.lesson:0 # text = Before they set off, the Rat climbs up into his hole and comes back staggering under a fat wicker picnic basket. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 set set VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 up up ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 back back ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 staggering stagger VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 17 under under ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 wicker wicker NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound 21 picnic picnic NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set off** | present | they | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **climb up** | present | the Rat | | | Rat's hole | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=Destination | | 3 | **come back** | present | the Rat *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stagger** | gerund | the Rat *not said here* | | | a wicker picnic basket | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under basket=Trajectory | 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:026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, 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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