--- title: When the Mole asks what's inside, the Rat rattles off a huge list of… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics description: When the Mole asks what's inside, the Rat rattles off a huge list of food all in one breath, and the Mole begs him to stop — it's too wonderful. Who acts: Mole, Rat. 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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, 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:1 # text = When the Mole asks what's inside, the Rat rattles off a huge list of food all in one breath, and the Mole begs him to stop — it's too wonderful. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ _ 6 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 inside inside ADV RB _ 4 ccomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 rattles rattle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 off off ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 17 appos _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 begs beg VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 30 — - PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 too too ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 35 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 Mole | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | inside *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **rattle off** | present | the Rat | a huge list of food | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent list=Theme | | 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | the Mole | | Rat | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **is** | present | Mole | | | | | wonderful *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **list** | | | food | | | | | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:1`. **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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