--- title: Just as the Rat gets the sardine tin open, there are scuffling feet… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics description: Just as the Rat gets the sardine tin open, there are scuffling feet and tiny voices outside: «Now, all in a line — hold the lantern up a bit, Tommy». Who acts: Rat, feet, line. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/43-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/43-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers/) / 13 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 13 Just as the Rat gets the sardine tin open, there are scuffling feet and tiny voices outside: «Now, all in a line — hold the lantern up a bit, Tommy». **Who acts:** Rat, feet, line · **What happens:** get, be, scuffle, hold up · **To what, where:** sardine tin, line, lantern 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 (Rat, feet, line), 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:13 # text = Just as the Rat gets the sardine tin open, there are scuffling feet and tiny voices outside: «Now, all in a line — hold the lantern up a bit, Tommy». # 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 sardine sardine NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 tin tin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 12 expl _ _ 12 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 scuffling scuffle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 14 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 18 outside outside ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 21 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 all all ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 27 — — PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 28 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 lantern lantern NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Tommy Tommy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 vocative _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:appos 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | the Rat | the sardine tin | | a line | now | open *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tin=Stimulus | | 2 | **does** | present | feet and tiny voices | | | there | | outside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **scuffle** | gerund | feet and tiny voices *not said here* | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hold up** *in a quote* | infinitive | a line *not said here* | the lantern | | | | a bit *obl:unmarked*; Tommy *vocative* | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lantern=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:043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, 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. 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