--- title: The next evening the Rat brings the news everyone along the river is… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The next evening the Rat brings the news everyone along the river is talking about: Toad took an early train to Town and has ordered a large and very expensive motor-car. Who acts: Rat, everyone, Toad. 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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, everyone, Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.lesson:10 # text = The next evening the Rat brings the news everyone along the river is talking about: Toad took an early train to Town and has ordered a large and very expensive motor-car. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:appos 6 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 14 nsubj _ _ 10 along along ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Town Town PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 ordered order VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 28 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 expensive expensive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 32 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **bring** | present | the Rat | the news | | | evening | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent news=Theme | | 2 | **talk about** | present · progressive | everyone | the news *not said here* | | | | about *property* | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent news=Patient | | 3 | **take** | past | Toad | a early train | Town | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent train=Theme to town=Destination | | 4 | **order** | present · perfect | Toad *not said here* | a large motor car | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=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:032-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze.lesson:10`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/9/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/)