--- title: The Mole had spent the day on the river with some companions; the Ra… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mole had spent the day on the river with some companions; the Rat had «a engagement of long standing» (a promise made long ago) to spend the evening with Otter. Who acts: Mole, Rat, long standing. 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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, long standing), 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:7 # text = The Mole had spent the day on the river with some companions; the Rat had «a engagement of long standing» (a promise made long ago) to spend the evening with Otter. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 12 companions companion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 engagement engagement NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 standing standing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 27 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 29 ago ago ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | past · perfect | the Mole | | | | day | on the river *goal*; with some companions | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent on river=Goal | | 2 | **have** | past | the Rat | a engagement of long standing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engagement=Patient | | 3 | **make** | participle | | a promise *not said here* | | | | ago *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **spend** | to-infinitive | the Rat *not said here* | a engagement of long standing *not said here* | | | evening | with Otter | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **engage** *in a quote* | | long standing | | | | | | nom engagement «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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:7`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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