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title: He sits down beside the Water Rat, and the two rest in friendly sile… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: He sits down beside the Water Rat, and the two rest in friendly silence. Who acts: traveller, two. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople), sentence 1

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He sits down beside the Water Rat, and the two rest in friendly silence.

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**Who acts:** traveller, two · **What happens:** sit down, rest · **To what, where:** Water Rat, friendly silence

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople)» 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 (traveller, two), 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:1
# text = He sits down beside the Water Rat, and the two rest in friendly silence.
# 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): no change
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **sit down** | present | traveller |  |  | the Water Rat |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside rat=Location |
| 2 | **rest** | present | the two |  |  | friendly silence |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in silence=Location |

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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:058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.lesson:1`.

**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): no change. **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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