--- title: The Rat just says «What's a little wet to a Water Rat?» and invites… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat just says «What's a little wet to a Water Rat?» and invites him to come and live with him, and promises to teach him to row and swim. Who acts: 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 (Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.lesson:10 # text = The Rat just says «What's a little wet to a Water Rat?» and invites him to come and live with him, and promises to teach him to row and swim. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.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): R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 6 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 nsubj _ _ 7 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 14 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obl|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 invites invite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 promises promise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 row row VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | the Rat | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | to a Water Rat; a little *obl:unmarked*; wet *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **invite** | present | the Rat *not said here* | Rat | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Rat *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **live** | infinitive | Rat *not said here* | | | | | with Rat | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location | | 6 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | the Rat *not said here* | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **teach** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Rat *not said here* | | Rat | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 8 | **row** | to-infinitive | the Rat *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **swim** | infinitive | the Rat *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. 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