--- title: As the Rat lies by the lane, a tired, dusty traveller comes along: a… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: As the Rat lies by the lane, a tired, dusty traveller comes along: another rat, lean and sharp-faced, with gold ear-rings, a faded blue jersey and his things tied up in a blue handkerchief. Who acts: Rat, tired dusty traveller. 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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, tired dusty traveller), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.lesson:0 # text = As the Rat lies by the lane, a tired, dusty traveller comes along: another rat, lean and sharp-faced, with gold ear-rings, a faded blue jersey and his things tied up in a blue handkerchief. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lane lane NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 dusty dusty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 traveller traveller NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 along along ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 17 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 lean lean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 faced faced ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 gold gold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:amod 28 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 faded fade VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 34 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 jersey jersey NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 39 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 40 up up ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 handkerchief handkerchief NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 14 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 | **lie** | present | the Rat | | | | | by the lane | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by lane=Location | | 2 | **come along** | present | a tired dusty traveller | | | | | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fade** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **tie up** | participle | | Rat's things *not said here* | | a blue handkerchief | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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:058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.lesson:0`. **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, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/28/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat/)