--- title: The Rat explains that the River is his whole world — his family, his… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat explains that the River is his whole world — his family, his food, his fun, in every season — and that the bank is so busy with otters, kingfishers and moorhens that he's never lonely. Who acts: Rat, River, bank, that. 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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, River, bank, that), 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:3 # text = The Rat explains that the River is his whole world — his family, his food, his fun, in every season — and that the bank is so busy with otters, kingfishers and moorhens that he's never lonely. # 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, 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 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 11 — - PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 24 — - PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 otters otter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 kingfishers kingfisher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 moorhens moorhen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 38 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 lonely lonely ADV RB _ 31 advcl _ _ 43 . . 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 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | the Rat | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | the River | Rat's whole world and Rat's fun | | | season | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | the bank | | | | | with otters and kingfishers and moorhens; busy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | that | | | | | lonely *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:3`. **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, 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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