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title: The Rat finds the beer is «Old Burton»: «Now we shall be able to mul… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rat finds the beer is «Old Burton»: «Now we shall be able to mull some ale!» (Mulled ale = beer warmed with spices.) The mice sip «and coughing and choking (for a little mulled ale goes a long way)». Who acts: Rat, beer, we, mice. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, par
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to), sentence 25

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The Rat finds the beer is «Old Burton»: «Now we shall be able to mull some ale!» (Mulled ale = beer warmed with spices.) The mice sip «and coughing and choking (for a little mulled ale goes a long way)».

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**Who acts:** Rat, beer, we, mice, little mulled ale · **What happens:** find, be, mull, warm, sip, cough · **To what, where:** Burton », ale, Mulled ale, long way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to)» 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, beer, we, mice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:25
# text = The Rat finds the beer is «Old Burton»: «Now we shall be able to mull some ale!» (Mulled ale = beer warmed with spices.) The mice sip «and coughing and choking (for a little mulled ale goes a long way)».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod
9	Burton	Burton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
13	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	mull	mull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Mulled	mull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
27	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	29	punct	_	_
28	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	warmed	warm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
34	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	sip	sip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
37	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	coughing	cough	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	choking	choke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	conj	_	_
42	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	48	punct	_	_
43	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	mulled	mull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	amod	_	_
47	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
52	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	48	punct	_	_
53	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the beer | Burton » |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | we |  |  |  | now | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **mull** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | some ale |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mull** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **warm** | participle | beer | Mulled ale *not said here* |  |  |  | with spices | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ale=Patient with spice=Instrument |
| 7 | **sip** | present | the mice |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **cough** *in a quote* | gerund | the mice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **choke** *in a quote* | gerund | the mice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 10 | **mull** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **go** *in a quote* | present | a little mulled ale | a long way |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |

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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:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:25`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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