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title: But the Rat is far ahead, worried about the coming snow, and calls b… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Rat is far ahead, worried about the coming snow, and calls back, «Come on, Mole, we'll come for it tomorrow!» So poor Mole, his heart torn in two, turns his back on his home and follows his friend. Who acts: Rat, we, poor Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, pa
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 9

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But the Rat is far ahead, worried about the coming snow, and calls back, «Come on, Mole, we'll come for it tomorrow!» So poor Mole, his heart torn in two, turns his back on his home and follows his friend.

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**Who acts:** Rat, we, poor Mole · **What happens:** be, come, call back, come on, tear, turn · **To what, where:** heart, two, back, home, friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Rat, we, poor Mole), 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:9
# text = But the Rat is far ahead, worried about the coming snow, and calls back, «Come on, Mole, we'll come for it tomorrow!» So poor Mole, his heart torn in two, turns his back on his home and follows his friend.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
6	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
12	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
20	on	on	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Mole	Mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	vocative	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
32	So	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
33	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Mole	Mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
38	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
42	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:nsubj
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:nmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  | about the coming snow; far, worried *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call back** *speech: assert* | present | the Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come on** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | Mole *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | future | we |  |  |  | tomorrow | for snow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **tear** | participle |  | Mole's heart *not said here* |  | two |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Trajectory |
| 7 | **turn** | present | poor Mole and Mole's heart | Mole's back |  | Mole's home |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
| 8 | **follow** | present | poor Mole and Mole's heart *not said here* | Mole's friend |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |

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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.

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**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:9`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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