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title: When the Water Rat asks whether it isn't hot down in the ship's hold… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Water Rat asks whether it isn't hot down in the ship's hold, the Sea Rat winks: «The captain's cabin's good enough for me» — he rides along as a guest, not as a hard-working sailor. Who acts: Water Rat, ship, Sea Rat, Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road), sentence 1

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When the Water Rat asks whether it isn't hot down in the ship's hold, the Sea Rat winks: «The captain's cabin's good enough for me» — he rides along as a guest, not as a hard-working sailor.

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**Who acts:** Water Rat, ship, Sea Rat, Rat · **What happens:** ask, not be, wink, ride along, work, hold · **To what, where:** ship · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Water Rat, ship, 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:1
# text = When the Water Rat asks whether it isn't hot down in the ship's hold, the Sea Rat winks: «The captain's cabin's good enough for me» — he rides along as a guest, not as a hard-working sailor.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	winks	wink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
23	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
24	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
30	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
34	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	rides	ride	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj
37	along	along	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
45	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	compound	_	_
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	_
47	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	amod	_	_
48	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Water Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | ship |  |  |  |  | down, hot *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wink** | present | the Sea Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ride along** | present | Rat |  |  |  |  | as a guest and a working sailor; along *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hold** |  |  | the ship |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=patient |

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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): R7-rel-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.

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