--- title: The Rat wanders into a field of tall wheat to visit his small friend… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat wanders into a field of tall wheat to visit his small friends there, but the field-mice and harvest-mice are all busy digging, packing trunks and studying plans of new little flats for the winter. Who acts: Rat, field mice. 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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 (Rat, field mice), 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:2 # text = The Rat wanders into a field of tall wheat to visit his small friends there, but the field-mice and harvest-mice are all busy digging, packing trunks and studying plans of new little flats 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wanders wander VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 wheat wheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 all all ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 29 digging dig VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 packing pack VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 conj _ _ 32 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 studying study VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 conj _ _ 35 plans plan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 flats flat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wander** | present | the Rat | | | a field of tall wheat | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into field=Destination | | 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | the Rat *not said here* | Rat's small friends | | there | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | the field mice and harvest mice | | | | | all, busy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **dig** | gerund | the field mice and harvest mice *not said here* | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pack** | gerund | the field mice and harvest mice *not said here* | trunks | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme trunk=Destination | | 6 | **study** | gerund | the field mice and harvest mice *not said here* | plans of new little flats | | | winter | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Topic | | 7 | **plan** | | | new little flats | | | | | nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson:2`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air/1/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air/)