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title: The Rat looks very grave, and stands «in deep thought for a minute o… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rat looks very grave, and stands «in deep thought for a minute or two». Who acts: Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 12

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The Rat looks very grave, and stands «in deep thought for a minute or two».

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**Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** look, stand · **To what, where:** deep thought

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out)» 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:034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood.lesson:12
# text = The Rat looks very grave, and stands «in deep thought for a minute or two».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	conj	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  | grave *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stand** | present | the Rat *not said here* |  |  | deep thought | minute |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thought=Location |

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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.

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**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:034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood.lesson:12`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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/).

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