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title: Grumpy and a bit lonely, the Rat goes back to his faithful old river… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grumpy and a bit lonely, the Rat goes back to his faithful old river, which never packs up, moves house or goes away for the winter. Who acts: Rat, faithful old river. 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 Mov
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air), sentence 4

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Grumpy and a bit lonely, the Rat goes back to his faithful old river, which never packs up, moves house or goes away for the winter.

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**Who acts:** Rat, faithful old river · **What happens:** go back, not pack up, move, go away · **To what, where:** house

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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, faithful old river), 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:4
# text = Grumpy and a bit lonely, the Rat goes back to his faithful old river, which never packs up, moves house or goes away 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	packs	pack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **go back** | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  | to Rat's faithful old river *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to river=Result |
| 2 | **not** **pack up** | present | Rat's faithful old river |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **move** | present | Rat's faithful old river *not said here* | house |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 4 | **go away** | present | Rat's faithful old river *not said here* |  |  |  | winter | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson:4`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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