--- title: When the door-mat appeared — «There, what did I tell you?» — the Mol… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: When the door-mat appeared — «There, what did I tell you?» — the Mole answered «Absolutely nothing whatever ... with perfect truthfulness»: the Rat really hadn't told him anything. Who acts: door mat, Mole, 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 (door mat, Mole, 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:26 # text = When the door-mat appeared — «There, what did I tell you?» — the Mole answered «Absolutely nothing whatever ... with perfect truthfulness»: the Rat really hadn't told him anything. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 mat mat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 7 — - PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 9 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 discourse _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 obj _ _ 12 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:parataxis 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 18 — - PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 23 Absolutely absolutely ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 21 obj _ _ 25 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 acl _ _ 26 ... ... PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 truthfulness truthfulness NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 31 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 34 really really ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 35 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 parataxis _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 iobj _ _ 39 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 37 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | the door mat | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past · do-support | the Mole *= mole* | | you | there | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic | | 3 | **answer** *speech: ask* | past | the Mole | nothing | | | | with perfect truthfulness | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the Rat | anything | Mole | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Topic | 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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