--- title: «the point of the Rat's cudgel struck something that sounded hollow»… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: «the point of the Rat's cudgel struck something that sounded hollow»; then they found «a solid-looking little door, painted a dark green. Who acts: point, hummocks, looking little door. 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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 (point, hummocks, looking little door), 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:32 # text = «the point of the Rat's cudgel struck something that sounded hollow»; then they found «a solid-looking little door, painted a dark green. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 6 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 cudgel cudgel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 9 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 21 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 compound _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 amod _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 acl _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 green green NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **strike** *in a quote* | past | the point of the Rat's cudgel | something | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sound** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | hollow *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **find** | past | hummocks *= hummock* | a looking little door | | | then | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic | | 4 | **look** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **paint** *in a quote* | participle | a looking little door *not said here* | a dark green | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent green=Destination | | 6 | **point** *in a quote* | | | the Rat's cudgel | | | | | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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: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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/30/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…, 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/33/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/)