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title: «I drew him out and pumped him» means the Rat asked Otter gentle que… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: «I drew him out and pumped him» means the Rat asked Otter gentle questions until he told the whole worry; «turn in» means go to bed. Who acts: Portly, Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing)» of the books course 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 15

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«I drew him out and pumped him» means the Rat asked Otter gentle questions until he told the whole worry; «turn in» means go to bed.

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**Who acts:** Portly, Rat · **What happens:** draw out, pump, mean, ask, tell, turn in · **To what, where:** Portly, Otter gentle questions, whole worry, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing)» 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 (Portly, 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:15
# text = «I drew him out and pumped him» means the Rat asked Otter gentle questions until he told the whole worry; «turn in» means go to bed.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:csubj
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pumped	pump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	Otter	Otter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	csubj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
28	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw out** *in a quote* | past | Portly | Portly |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **pump** *in a quote* | past | Portly *not said here* |  | Portly |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Rat | Otter gentle questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Rat | the whole worry |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent worry=Recipient |
| 6 | **turn in** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**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:15`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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/).

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