--- title: The Rat says the other animals call him «a mean beast» who cuts it «… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat says the other animals call him «a mean beast» who cuts it «very fine» (gives only just enough) — a joke, as the basket is enormous. Who acts: Rat, other animals, mean beast, basket. 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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, other animals, mean beast, basket), 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:13 # text = The Rat says the other animals call him «a mean beast» who cuts it «very fine» (gives only just enough) — a joke, as the basket is enormous. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 just just ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 27 — - PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 enormous enormous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 advcl _ _ 36 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Rat | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **call** | present | the other animals | | Rat | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **cut** | present | a mean beast | beast | | | | fine *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | | 4 | **give** | present | | enough | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent enough=Recipient joke=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | the basket | | | | | enormous *property* | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.lesson:13`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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