--- title: «The Rat said little or nothing, only taking care that each guest ha… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics description: «The Rat said little or nothing, only taking care that each guest had what he wanted, and plenty of it, and that Mole had no trouble or anxiety about anything.» Who acts: Rat, guest, Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/44-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming/30/) [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/44-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming/) / 30 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to), sentence 30 «The Rat said little or nothing, only taking care that each guest had what he wanted, and plenty of it, and that Mole had no trouble or anxiety about anything.» **Who acts:** Rat, guest, Mole · **What happens:** say, take, have, want · **To what, where:** little, care, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, guest, Mole), 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:30 # text = «The Rat said little or nothing, only taking care that each guest had what he wanted, and plenty of it, and that Mole had no trouble or anxiety about anything.» # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp 11 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 guest guest NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 16 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 obj _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 30 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 anxiety anxiety NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 about about ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 32 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the Rat | little | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent little=Topic | | 2 | **take** *in a quote* | gerund | the Rat *not said here* | care | | | | plenty of plenty *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | each guest | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 4 | **want** *in a quote* | past | Rat | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Mole | no trouble or anxiety about anything | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient | 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:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:30`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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