--- title: The traveller greets the Rat «with a gesture of courtesy that had so… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: The traveller greets the Rat «with a gesture of courtesy that had something foreign about it»; the Rat lets him rest «unquestioned», knowing «the value all animals attach at times to mere silent companionship». Who acts: traveller, gesture, Rat, animals. 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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 (traveller, gesture, Rat, animals), 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:7 # text = The traveller greets the Rat «with a gesture of courtesy that had something foreign about it»; the Rat lets him rest «unquestioned», knowing «the value all animals attach at times to mere silent companionship». # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 traveller traveller NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 greets greet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 gesture gesture NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 courtesy courtesy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 15 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 16 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 unquestioned unquestioned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 value value NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 attach attach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 mere mere ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 companionship companionship NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 42 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 43 . . 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 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | the traveller | | the Rat | | | with a gesture of courtesy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | a gesture of courtesy | something | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | | 3 | **let** | present | the Rat | traveller | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **rest** | infinitive | traveller *not said here* | | | | | unquestioned *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **know** | gerund | the Rat *not said here* | the value | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer value=Stimulus | | 6 | **attach** *in a quote* | present | all animals | the value *not said here* | | | time | to mere silent companionship | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent value=Patient to companionship=Co-Patient | | 7 | **gesture** *in a quote* | | courtesy | | | | | | nom gesture «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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:7`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat/6/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat/)