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title: The Rat whispers: «Here, in this holy place, here if anywhere, surel… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rat whispers: «Here, in this holy place, here if anywhere, surely we shall find Him!» Who acts: Rat, we. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the music and the island)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the music and the island), sentence 20

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The Rat whispers: «Here, in this holy place, here if anywhere, surely we shall find Him!»

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**Who acts:** Rat, we · **What happens:** whisper, find · **To what, where:** Mole · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the music and the island)» 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 (Rat, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:050-willows-ch7-part2-the-piper.lesson:20
# text = The Rat whispers: «Here, in this holy place, here if anywhere, surely we shall find Him!»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 050-willows-ch7-part2-the-piper.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	whispers	whisper	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
21	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	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 | **whisper** *speech: express* | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **find** *in a quote* | shall | we | Mole |  | here |  | surely *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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:050-willows-ch7-part2-the-piper.lesson:20`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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