--- title: The Water Rat confesses: «my life, I confess to you, feels to me to-… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: The Water Rat confesses: «my life, I confess to you, feels to me to-day somewhat narrow and circumscribed» (circumscribed = closed in, limited). Who acts: Water Rat, life. 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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 (Water Rat, life), 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:21 # text = The Water Rat confesses: «my life, I confess to you, feels to me to-day somewhat narrow and circumscribed» (circumscribed = closed in, limited). # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Water Water PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 confesses confess VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 confess confess VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 somewhat somewhat ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 24 circumscribed circumscribe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 27 circumscribed circumscribe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 parataxis _ _ 28 = = SYM SYM _ 27 punct _ _ 29 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 limited limited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obl _ _ 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **confess** | present | the Water Rat | | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **confess** *in a quote* | present | the Water Rat *= rat* | | you | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient | | 3 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | my life | | the Water Rat *= rat* | | day | narrow *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to i=Experiencer | | 4 | **circumscribe** *in a quote* | participle | my life *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **circumscribe** | participle | | | | limited | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **close** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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:21`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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