--- title: The Rat chatters «about what they would do when they got back» — «ho… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat chatters «about what they would do when they got back» — «how jolly a fire of logs in the parlour would be» — «never noticing his companion's silence and distressful state of mind». Who acts: Rat, run, fire, companion. 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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, run, fire, companion), 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:13 # text = The Rat chatters «about what they would do when they got back» — «how jolly a fire of logs in the parlour would be» — «never noticing his companion's silence and distressful state of mind». # 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): no change 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 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 obl _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 15 — - PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 17 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 18 jolly jolly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 logs log NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 parlour parlour NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 26 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 — - PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 31 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 noticing notice VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 companion companion NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 distressful distressful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 42 » » PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** | present | the Rat | a fire of logs | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about what=Topic | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | would | run | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **get back** *in a quote* | past | run | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | would | a fire of logs *not said here* | | | the parlour | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in parlour=Location | | 5 | **not** **notice** *in a quote* | gerund | the Rat *not said here* | Rat's companion's silence and distressful state of mind | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer silence=Stimulus | | 6 | **fire** *in a quote* | | | logs | | | | | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **silence** *in a quote* | | Rat's companion | | | | | | nom silence «state transitive»: poss=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. 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