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title: The Rat says: «You know it isn't time to be thinking of winter quart… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rat says: «You know it isn't time to be thinking of winter quarters yet, by a long way!» (winter quarters = a home for the winter). Who acts: Rat, You, hand. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air)» of the books course of Mova's pr
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 18

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The Rat says: «You know it isn't time to be thinking of winter quarters yet, by a long way!» (winter quarters = a home for the winter).

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**Who acts:** Rat, You, hand · **What happens:** say, know, not be, think · **To what, where:** winter quarters, time · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air)» 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, You, hand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson:18
# text = The Rat says: «You know it isn't time to be thinking of winter quarters yet, by a long way!» (winter quarters = a home for the winter).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
27	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
29	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: express* | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | You | winter quarters |  |  |  | by a long way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | hand | time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive · progressive | You *not said here* |  |  |  | yet | of winter quarters | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. **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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