--- title: The Rat ties it up with his handkerchief and looks closely: a very c… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat ties it up with his handkerchief and looks closely: a very clean cut, not from a branch — from the sharp edge of something metal. Who acts: Rat. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.lesson:1 # text = The Rat ties it up with his handkerchief and looks closely: a very clean cut, not from a branch — from the sharp edge of something metal. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.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 ×2, 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 ties tie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound:prt 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 handkerchief handkerchief NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 closely closely ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 16 cut cut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 — - PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:compound 29 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tie up** | present | the Rat | shin | | | | with Rat's handkerchief | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with handkerchief=Co-Patient | | 2 | **look** | present | the Rat *not said here* | | | | | closely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/0/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/)