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title: The Rat's plan: a dell (small valley) «where the ground seems all hi… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rat's plan: a dell (small valley) «where the ground seems all hilly and humpy and hummocky» — look for «a cave or hole with a dry floor to it» to rest; «the snow may leave off, or something may turn up». Who acts: ground, snow, something, Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, c
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes), sentence 40

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The Rat's plan: a dell (small valley) «where the ground seems all hilly and humpy and hummocky» — look for «a cave or hole with a dry floor to it» to rest; «the snow may leave off, or something may turn up».

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**Who acts:** ground, snow, something, Rat · **What happens:** seem, look, rest, leave off, turn up, plan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ground, snow, something, Rat), 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:40
# text = The Rat's plan: a dell (small valley) «where the ground seems all hilly and humpy and hummocky» — look for «a cave or hole with a dry floor to it» to rest; «the snow may leave off, or something may turn up».
# 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dell	dell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	hilly	hilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	humpy	humpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hummocky	hummocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod
36	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nsubj
38	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	«	«	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
45	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	ccomp	_	_
47	off	off	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	52	nsubj	_	_
51	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:conj
53	up	up	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	_
54	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	_
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | the ground |  |  |  |  | hilly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for a cave with a dry floor  ground or hole | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cave=Theme |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave off** *in a quote* | may | the snow |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **turn up** *in a quote* | may | something |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **plan** |  | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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