--- title: On a hot midsummer night, well past ten o'clock, the Mole lies on co… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: On a hot midsummer night, well past ten o'clock, the Mole lies on cool dock-leaves by the river and waits for the Rat, who has been having supper with the Otters. Who acts: Mole, Rat. 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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 (Mole, Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.lesson:0 # text = On a hot midsummer night, well past ten o'clock, the Mole lies on cool dock-leaves by the river and waits for the Rat, who has been having supper with the Otters. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 On on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 midsummer midsummer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 well well ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 past past ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:amod 17 dock dock NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nmod 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 30 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 aux _ _ 32 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 acl:relcl _ _ 33 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Otters otter PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 32 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 37 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | the Mole | | | dock leaves | night | past ten o'clock | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leaf=Location | | 2 | **wait** | present | the Mole *not said here* | | | | | for the Rat | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present · perfect · progressive | the Rat | supper | | | | with the Otters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=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:049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.lesson:0`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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. 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