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title: The Rat hears the reeds sing: «Lest the awe should dwell — And turn… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rat hears the reeds sing: «Lest the awe should dwell — And turn your frolic to fret — You shall look on my power at the helping hour — But then you shall forget!» (frolic = play; fret = worry). Who acts: Rat, reeds, awe, You. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness), sentence 19

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The Rat hears the reeds sing: «Lest the awe should dwell — And turn your frolic to fret — You shall look on my power at the helping hour — But then you shall forget!» (frolic = play; fret = worry).

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**Who acts:** Rat, reeds, awe, You, your · **What happens:** hear, sing, dwell, turn, fret, look · **To what, where:** frolic · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness)» 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, reeds, awe, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:051-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness.lesson:19
# text = The Rat hears the reeds sing: «Lest the awe should dwell — And turn your frolic to fret — You shall look on my power at the helping hour — But then you shall forget!» (frolic = play; fret = worry).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 051-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
5	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	awe	awe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	frolic	frolic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	fret	fret	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	helping	helping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
39	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
41	frolic	frolic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	=	=	SYM	SYM	Number=Plur	43	punct	_	_
43	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
45	fret	fret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	parataxis	_	_
46	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	45	punct	_	_
47	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	_
48	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	45	punct	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | the reeds |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dwell** *in a quote* | should | the awe |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** *in a quote* | infinitive | the awe *not said here* | your frolic |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fret** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the awe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **look** *in a quote* | shall | You |  |  |  | hour | on my power | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on power=Theme |
| 7 | **forget** *in a quote* | shall | you |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **play** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **frolic** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom frolic «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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, R7-rel-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.

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

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