--- title: It is mid-December, nearly dark, and Rat and Mole are tramping home… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics description: It is mid-December, nearly dark, and Rat and Mole are tramping home across frosty fields after a long day out with Otter. Who acts: It, Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home)» of the books course of Mova's pri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/41-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/41-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home/) / 0 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 0 It is mid-December, nearly dark, and Rat and Mole are tramping home across frosty fields after a long day out with Otter. **Who acts:** It, Rat · **What happens:** be, tramp · **To what, where:** mid-December, frosty fields This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:041-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home.lesson:0 # text = It is mid-December, nearly dark, and Rat and Mole are tramping home across frosty fields after a long day out with Otter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 041-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 mid-December mid-December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 11 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 tramping tramp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 14 home home ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 across across ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 frosty frosty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 after after ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 22 out out ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | It | mid-December | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | | | | | | nearly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tramp** | present · progressive | Rat and Mole | | | frosty fields | day | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory | 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:041-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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 IV, p…, 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/40-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood/36/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, pa…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/41-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/41-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home/)