--- title: Rat and Mole have been up since dawn getting the boats ready — paint… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: Rat and Mole have been up since dawn getting the boats ready — painting, varnishing, mending — when there is a heavy knock. Who acts: Rat, heavy knock. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rat, heavy knock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.lesson:1 # text = Rat and Mole have been up since dawn getting the boats ready — painting, varnishing, mending — when there is a heavy knock. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 cop _ _ 6 up up ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ 7 since since ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 13 — - PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 painting painting NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 varnishing varnish VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 mending mend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 19 — - PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 22 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 knock knock NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present · perfect | Rat and Mole | | | | dawn | up *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | gerund | Rat and Mole *not said here* | the boats | | | | ready *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent boat=Beneficiary painting=Theme | | 3 | **varnish** | gerund | Rat and Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mend** | gerund | Rat and Mole *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | present | a heavy knock | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:045-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad/0/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad/)