--- title: The Rat has «never even ventured to call on him at his own home myse… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat has «never even ventured to call on him at his own home myself», and says «we can't ... he lives in the very middle of the Wild Wood». Who acts: Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone)» of the books cour --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood/15/) [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 III,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood/) / 15 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 15 The Rat has «never even ventured to call on him at his own home myself», and says «we can't ... he lives in the very middle of the Wild Wood». **Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** not venture, call, say, live · **To what, where:** Rat, very middle · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone)» 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 (Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.lesson:15 # text = The Rat has «never even ventured to call on him at his own home myself», and says «we can't ... he lives in the very middle of the Wild Wood». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 5 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 even even ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 ventured venture VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obj _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 25 ... ... PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 very very ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 31 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 Wild Wild PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Wood Wood PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **venture** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Rat | the Rat *= rat* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **call** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Rat *not said here* | | | | | on Rat; at Rat's own home | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at home=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Rat *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **live** *in a quote* | present | Rat | | | the very middle of the Wild Wood | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | 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:033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.lesson:15`. **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): R7-rel-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. 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