--- title: Then the Mole asks the favour he's been waiting to ask: will the Rat… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Mole asks the favour he's been waiting to ask: will the Rat take him to meet Mr. Who acts: Mole, Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/) / 4 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 4 Then the Mole asks the favour he's been waiting to ask: will the Rat take him to meet Mr. **Who acts:** Mole, Rat · **What happens:** ask, wait, take, meet · **To what, where:** favour, Mole, Mr. · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mole, Rat), 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:4 # text = Then the Mole asks the favour he's been waiting to ask: will the Rat take him to meet Mr. # 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): no change 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 aux _ _ 10 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 21 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ ``` ## 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Mole | the favour | | | then | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **wait** | present · progressive | Mole | the favour *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **take** | future | the Rat | | Mole | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | | 5 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the Rat *not said here* | Mr. | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mr.=Co-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:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:4`. **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): no change. **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 II, p…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/3/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/)