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title: The Sea Rat goes on with his voyage: down the coast of Italy to Pale… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sea Rat goes on with his voyage: down the coast of Italy to Palermo and happy weeks with friends in Sicily, then on to Sardinia and Corsica; he never sticks too long to one ship. Who acts: Sea Rat, Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voy
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road), sentence 0

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The Sea Rat goes on with his voyage: down the coast of Italy to Palermo and happy weeks with friends in Sicily, then on to Sardinia and Corsica; he never sticks too long to one ship.

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**Who acts:** Sea Rat, Rat · **What happens:** go on, not stick, voyage

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road)» 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 (Sea Rat, Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:059-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road.lesson:0
# text = The Sea Rat goes on with his voyage: down the coast of Italy to Palermo and happy weeks with friends in Sicily, then on to Sardinia and Corsica; he never sticks too long to one ship.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 059-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Palermo	Palermo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Sicily	Sicily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Sardinia	Sardinia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	Corsica	Corsica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	sticks	stick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
35	too	too	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **go on** | present | the Sea Rat |  |  |  |  | with Rat's voyage down the coast of Italy to Palermo and happy weeks with friends in Sicily | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **stick** | present | Rat |  |  |  |  | to one ship; long *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to ship=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **voyage** |  | Rat |  |  |  |  | down the coast of Italy to Palermo and happy weeks with friends in Sicily | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent down=obl |

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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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**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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