--- title: The Rat rows and the Mole steers, carefully, because the shadows on… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat rows and the Mole steers, carefully, because the shadows on the water look «as solid to all appearance as the banks themselves». Who acts: Mole, shadows. 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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, shadows), 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:17 # text = The Rat rows and the Mole steers, carefully, because the shadows on the water look «as solid to all appearance as the banks themselves». # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 rows row VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 6 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 steers steer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 20 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 27 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 26 nmod:unmarked _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **row** | present | | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **steer** | present | the Mole | | | | | carefully *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **look** | present | the shadows on the water | | | | | solid *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:17`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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