--- title: They tell him to stop standing about idle and help; he invites them… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: They tell him to stop standing about idle and help; he invites them for a row or a picnic, and they say «perhaps some other day»; he trips over a hat-box, falls, and is told off for not looking where he is going. Who acts: mice, Rat. 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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 (mice, Rat), 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:3 # text = They tell him to stop standing about idle and help; he invites them for a row or a picnic, and they say «perhaps some other day»; he trips over a hat-box, falls, and is told off for not looking where he is going. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 idle idle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 invites invite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 picnic picnic NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 26 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 ccomp _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 trips trip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 34 over over ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ _ 38 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct 40 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 45 off off ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 for for SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 47 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 48 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 advcl _ _ 49 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 52 advmod _ _ 50 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 51 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 52 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 48 conj _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | mice *= mouse* | | Rat | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | mice *= mouse* *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **stand** | gerund | mice *= mouse* *not said here* | | | | | about idle and help | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about idle=Location | | 4 | **invite** | present | Rat | mice *= mouse* | | | | for a row or a picnic | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | mice *= mouse* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **trip** | present | Rat | | | a hat box | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over box=Trajectory | | 7 | **fall** | present | Rat *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **tell off** *speech: assert* | present · passive | Rat *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | | 9 | **not** **look** | gerund | Rat *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 10 | **go** | present · progressive | Rat | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:3`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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