--- title: The Rat explains: river-bankers never come here alone; you need to k… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat explains: river-bankers never come here alone; you need to know the passwords, signs, sayings, plants and tricks — unless you're Badger or Otter. Who acts: Rat, river bankers, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rat, river bankers, you), 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:7 # text = The Rat explains: river-bankers never come here alone; you need to know the passwords, signs, sayings, plants and tricks — unless you're Badger or Otter. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 bankers banker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 10 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 11 alone alone ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 passwords password NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 sayings saying NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:appos 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 — - PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 28 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 Badger badger NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 advcl _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | the Rat | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **come** | present | river bankers | | | here | | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **need** | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the passwords and signs and sayings and plants and tricks | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer password=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | Badger or Otter | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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