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title: «We might have just gone and had one look at it, Ratty—only one look… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: «We might have just gone and had one look at it, Ratty—only one look—it was close by—but you wouldn't turn back, Ratty, you wouldn't turn back!» Who acts: We, sob, you. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole En
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End), sentence 18

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«We might have just gone and had one look at it, Ratty—only one look—it was close by—but you wouldn't turn back, Ratty, you wouldn't turn back!»

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**Who acts:** We, sob, you · **What happens:** go, have, be, not turn back · **To what, where:** one look, sob

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End)» 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 (We, sob, you), 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:18
# text = «We might have just gone and had one look at it, Ratty—only one look—it was close by—but you wouldn't turn back, Ratty, you wouldn't turn back!»
# 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Ratty	ratty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Ratty	ratty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	parataxis	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
38	back	back	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
40	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=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 | **go** *in a quote* | might · perfect | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | participle | We *not said here* | one look |  | sob |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | sob |  |  |  |  | close *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **turn back** *in a quote* | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **turn back** *in a quote* | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.lesson:18`.

**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 ×3, 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/).

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