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title: Why did he drag poor Ratty here, when he could be toasting his toes… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did he drag poor Ratty here, when he could be toasting his toes at home? Who acts: Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 1

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Why did he drag poor Ratty here, when he could be toasting his toes at home?

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**Who acts:** Mole · **What happens:** drag, toast · **To what, where:** poor Ratty, toes, home

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside)» 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 (Mole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.lesson:1
# text = Why did he drag poor Ratty here, when he could be toasting his toes at home?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.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	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drag	drag	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Ratty	Ratty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	toasting	toast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **drag** | past · do-support | Mole | poor Ratty |  | here |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ratty=Theme |
| 2 | **toast** | could · progressive | Mole | Mole's toes |  | home |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent toe=Patient |

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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:043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.lesson:1`.

**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): no change. **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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