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title: From the cellar the Rat brings «a bottle of beer in each paw and ano… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: From the cellar the Rat brings «a bottle of beer in each paw and another under each arm»: «Self-indulgent beggar you seem to be, Mole … Deny yourself nothing.» (Self-indulgent = treating yourself — said as a friendly joke.) Who acts: Rat, you. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapt
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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 27

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From the cellar the Rat brings «a bottle of beer in each paw and another under each arm»: «Self-indulgent beggar you seem to be, Mole … Deny yourself nothing.» (Self-indulgent = treating yourself — said as a friendly joke.)

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**Who acts:** Rat, you · **What happens:** bring, seem, be, deny, treat, say · **To what, where:** bottle, cellar, Self indulgent beggar, Mole, nothing, yourself · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Rat, you), 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:27
# text = From the cellar the Rat brings «a bottle of beer in each paw and another under each arm»: «Self-indulgent beggar you seem to be, Mole … Deny yourself nothing.» (Self-indulgent = treating yourself — said as a friendly joke.)
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	conj	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
23	Self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	indulgent	indulgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	_
33	…	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Deny	deny	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
35	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obj
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	34	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
38	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
39	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	42	punct	_	_
40	Self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	_
42	indulgent	indulgent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
43	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	44	punct	_	_
44	treating	treat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
45	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	44	obj	_	_
46	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
47	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
48	as	as	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
53	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | the Rat | a bottle of beer |  | the cellar |  | in each paw; Self indulgent *obl* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme from cellar=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | you | Self indulgent beggar |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Mole |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **deny** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | nothing | yourself |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme nothing=Eventuality |
| 5 | **treat** | gerund | the Rat *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a friendly joke | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.lesson:27`.

**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): R7-rel-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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