--- title: It was the Rat, and he was evidently laughing—the Mole could feel hi… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: It was the Rat, and he was evidently laughing—the Mole could feel him laughing, right down his arm and through his paw». Who acts: paw, Rat, Mole. 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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 (paw, Rat, Mole), 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:25 # text = It was the Rat, and he was evidently laughing—the Mole could feel him laughing, right down his arm and through his paw». # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 evidently evidently ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 11 — - PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 right right ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 down down ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 through through ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **is a** | past | paw | the Rat | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **laugh** | past · progressive | Rat | | | | | evidently *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **feel** | could | the Mole | Rat | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **laugh** | gerund | Rat *not said here* | | | | | down Mole's arm and Mole's paw | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.lesson:25`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/28-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh/24/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/28-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/28-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh/)