--- title: «It's a hard life, by all accounts,» says the Water Rat. — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: «It's a hard life, by all accounts,» says the Water Rat. Who acts: ship, Water Rat. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/59-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/59-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road/) / 10 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road), sentence 10 «It's a hard life, by all accounts,» says the Water Rat. **Who acts:** ship, Water Rat · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** hard life · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (ship, Water 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:10 # text = «It's a hard life, by all accounts,» says the Water Rat. # 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 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 ccomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 accounts account NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 13 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Water Water PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | ship | a hard life | | | | by all accounts | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Water Rat | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:059-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road.lesson:10`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/59-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road/8/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/59-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/59-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road/)