--- title: He met a silly rabbit who said all the rabbits knew the Mole was bei… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: He met a silly rabbit who said all the rabbits knew the Mole was being chased last night — and none of them did a thing to help. Who acts: Rat, silly rabbit, none. 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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, silly rabbit, none), 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:3 # text = He met a silly rabbit who said all the rabbits knew the Mole was being chased last night — and none of them did a thing to help. # 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): no change 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 10 det:predet _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 rabbits rabbit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 15 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 chased chase VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 ccomp _ _ 17 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 — - PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 24 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | past | Rat | a silly rabbit | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Co-Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a silly rabbit | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **know** | past · passive | | all rabbits | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **chase** | past · passive | | the Mole | | | night | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **do** | past | none | a thing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 6 | **help** | to-infinitive | none *not said here* | a thing *not said here* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:3`. **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): no change. **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. 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