--- title: The Rat looks at «the great ring of Downs» (rounded chalky hills) to… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat looks at «the great ring of Downs» (rounded chalky hills) to the south, «his simple horizon hitherto, his Mountains of the Moon, his limit»; the Mountains of the Moon is an old name for faraway mountains at the edge of the known world. Who acts: Rat, Mountains. 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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, Mountains), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.lesson:25 # text = The Rat looks at «the great ring of Downs» (rounded chalky hills) to the south, «his simple horizon hitherto, his Mountains of the Moon, his limit»; the Mountains of the Moon is an old name for faraway mountains at the edge of the known world. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Downs Downs PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 13 rounded round VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 14 chalky chalky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 appos _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 horizon horizon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 25 hitherto hitherto ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 Mountains Mountain PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 limit limit NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Mountains Mountain PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 43 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 46 for for ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 faraway faraway ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nmod _ _ 49 at at ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 54 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 55 amod _ _ 55 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | the Rat | | | | | to the south; at the great ring of Downs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ring=Theme | | 2 | **round** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | the Mountains of the Moon | a old name | | the edge of the known world | | for faraway mountains | tree rules | | 4 | **know** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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. 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