--- title: One bright summer morning the Rat has been swimming with the ducks,… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: One bright summer morning the Rat has been swimming with the ducks, tickling their necks whenever they stand on their heads underwater, until they beg him to go away. Who acts: Rat, necks. 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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, necks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:0 # text = One bright summer morning the Rat has been swimming with the ducks, tickling their necks whenever they stand on their heads underwater, until they beg him to go away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 2 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 aux _ _ 9 swimming swim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 tickling tickle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 necks neck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl:relcl _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod:poss 22 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:compound 23 underwater underwater ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 until until SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 beg beg VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 31 away away ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swim** | present · perfect · progressive | the Rat | | | | morning | with the ducks | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with duck=Theme | | 2 | **tickle** | gerund | the Rat *not said here* | ducks's necks | | | | whenever *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Experiencer | | 3 | **stand** | present | necks *= neck* | necks's heads | | | | underwater *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | necks *= neck* | | Rat | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **go away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | necks *= neck* *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:0`. **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 ×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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