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title: Meanwhile the Rat dozed, «his paper of half-finished verses slipped… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the Rat dozed, «his paper of half-finished verses slipped from his knee ... and he wandered by the verdant banks of dream-rivers» (verdant = green). Who acts: Rat, paper. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pa
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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 25

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Meanwhile the Rat dozed, «his paper of half-finished verses slipped from his knee ... and he wandered by the verdant banks of dream-rivers» (verdant = green).

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**Who acts:** Rat, paper · **What happens:** doze, finish, slip, wander · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, paper), 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:25
# text = Meanwhile the Rat dozed, «his paper of half-finished verses slipped from his knee ... and he wandered by the verdant banks of dream-rivers» (verdant = green).
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dozed	doze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	verdant	verdant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
29	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
32	verdant	verdant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	_
33	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	34	dep	_	_
34	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **doze** | past | the Rat |  |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **finish** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **slip** *in a quote* | past | Rat's paper of finished verses |  |  |  |  | from Rat's knee | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from knee=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **wander** *in a quote* | past | Rat |  |  |  |  | by the verdant banks of dream rivers | tree rules |

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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:25`.

**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 ×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/).

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