--- title: The Rat let him sleep, and «lay patiently waiting, with a pistol in… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat let him sleep, and «lay patiently waiting, with a pistol in his paw». Who acts: Rat, Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/35-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood/32/) [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/35-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood/) / 32 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes), sentence 32 The Rat let him sleep, and «lay patiently waiting, with a pistol in his paw». **Who acts:** Rat, Mole · **What happens:** let, sleep, lie, wait · **To what, where:** Mole This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes)» 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, Mole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood.lesson:32 # text = The Rat let him sleep, and «lay patiently waiting, with a pistol in his paw». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 patiently patiently ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pistol pistol NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **let** | infinitive | the Rat | Mole | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sleep** | infinitive | Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lie** *in a quote* | past | the Rat *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **wait** *in a quote* | gerund | the Rat *not said here* | | | | | with a pistol in Rat's paw; patiently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood.lesson:32`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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