--- title: The Rat «incautiously» (carelessly) tells Toad that the Mole and the… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat «incautiously» (carelessly) tells Toad that the Mole and the Badger «will be out till luncheon time» — so Toad knows he'll be alone with the Rat. Who acts: Rat, Mole, Toad. 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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, Mole, Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.lesson:18 # text = The Rat «incautiously» (carelessly) tells Toad that the Mole and the Badger «will be out till luncheon time» — so Toad knows he'll be alone with the Rat. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.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 ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nsubj 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 incautiously incautiously ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 7 carelessly carelessly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Badger badger NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 20 out out ADV RB _ 9 ccomp _ _ 21 till till ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 luncheon luncheon NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 25 — - PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 32 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 ccomp _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Rat | | Toad | | | incautiously *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toad=Recipient | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the Mole and the Badger | | | | time | out *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **know** | present | Toad | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | future | Toad | | | | | with the Rat; alone *property* | tree rules | 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:047-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat.lesson:18`. **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 ×3. **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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