--- title: Rat and Mole were «painting and varnishing, mending paddles, repairi… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: Rat and Mole were «painting and varnishing, mending paddles, repairing cushions, hunting for missing boat-hooks» for «the opening of the boating season». Who acts: Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad/15/) [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 VI, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad/) / 15 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!), sentence 15 Rat and Mole were «painting and varnishing, mending paddles, repairing cushions, hunting for missing boat-hooks» for «the opening of the boating season». **Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** painting, varnish, mend, repair, hunt · **To what, where:** paddles, cushions This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» 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), 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:15 # text = Rat and Mole were «painting and varnishing, mending paddles, repairing cushions, hunting for missing boat-hooks» for «the opening of the boating season». # 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 ×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 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 painting painting VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 varnishing varnish VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 mending mend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 11 paddles paddle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 repairing repair VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 14 cushions cushion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 hunting hunt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 missing missing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 hooks hook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 opening opening NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 boating boating NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **painting** *in a quote* | past · progressive | Rat and Mole | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **varnish** *in a quote* | gerund | Rat and Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mend** *in a quote* | gerund | Rat and Mole *not said here* | paddles | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **repair** *in a quote* | gerund | Rat and Mole *not said here* | cushions | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cushion=Patient | | 5 | **hunt** *in a quote* | gerund | Rat and Mole *not said here* | | | | | for missing boat hooks; for the opening of the boating season | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for hook=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. 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