--- title: The front-door bell clangs, and in bursts the Otter, hugging the Rat… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The front-door bell clangs, and in bursts the Otter, hugging the Rat so hard he splutters through his buttered toast. Who acts: door bell, Otter. 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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 bell, Otter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:0 # text = The front-door bell clangs, and in bursts the Otter, hugging the Rat so hard he splutters through his buttered toast. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 clangs clang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 9 in in ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 bursts burst VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 14 hugging hug VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 splutters splutter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 21 through through ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 buttered butter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 toast toast NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **clang** | present | the door bell | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **burst** | present | the Otter | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hug** | gerund | the Otter *not said here* | the Rat | | | | hard *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Co-Agent | | 4 | **splutter** | present | Otter | | | Otter's buttered toast | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through toast=Location | | 5 | **butter** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | 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:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/39/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/)