--- title: The Rat chatters away about the fire and the supper waiting at home… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat chatters away about the fire and the supper waiting at home and doesn't notice how quiet the Mole has gone. Who acts: Rat, supper, Mole. 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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, supper, Mole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.lesson:0 # text = The Rat chatters away about the fire and the supper waiting at home and doesn't notice how quiet the Mole has gone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 chatters chatter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 19 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 ccomp _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chatter away** | present | the Rat | | | | | about the fire and the supper; away *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about fire=Topic | | 2 | **wait** | gerund | the supper *not said here* | | | home | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | | 3 | **not** **notice** | present · do-support | the Rat *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **go** | present · perfect | the Mole | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.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 ×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 V, pa…, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/41-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home/29/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, pa…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/42-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/42-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end/)