--- title: Rat and Mole were coming back «after a long day's outing with Otter,… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics description: Rat and Mole were coming back «after a long day's outing with Otter, hunting and exploring on the wide uplands» where small streams that feed their River begin. Who acts: Rat, small streams. 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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, small streams), 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:12 # text = Rat and Mole were coming back «after a long day's outing with Otter, hunting and exploring on the wide uplands» where small streams that feed their River begin. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 8 after after ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 outing outing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 hunting hunt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 exploring explore VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 uplands upland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 25 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 26 advmod _ _ 26 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 streams stream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 begin begin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **come back** | past · progressive | Rat and Mole | | | | after a long day's outing with Otter | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hunt** *in a quote* | gerund | Rat and Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **explore** *in a quote* | gerund | Rat and Mole *not said here* | | | the wide uplands | | | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **feed** | present | small streams | | Rat's River | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Recipient | | 5 | **begin** | present | small streams | the wide uplands *not said here* | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upland=Eventuality | 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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