--- title: The «polite Water Rat» invites him to lunch; the Sea Rat asks him to… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: The «polite Water Rat» invites him to lunch; the Sea Rat asks him to bring it outside: «I am none too fond of going under hatches» (indoors, below deck), and indoors «it is a hundred to one that I shall presently fall asleep». Who acts: polite Water Rat, Sea Rat, crew, lunch. 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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 (polite Water Rat, Sea Rat, crew, lunch), 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:16 # text = The «polite Water Rat» invites him to lunch; the Sea Rat asks him to bring it outside: «I am none too fond of going under hatches» (indoors, below deck), and indoors «it is a hundred to one that I shall presently fall asleep». # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 3 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 Water Water PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 invites invite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 10 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 outside outside ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 24 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 27 compound _ _ 26 too too ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 fond fond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 28 of of SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:acl 30 under under ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 hatches hatch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 34 indoors indoors ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 36 below below ADP IN _ 37 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 37 deck deck NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 37 punct _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 41 indoors indoors ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 42 « « PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=48:det 46 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 compound _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 53 nsubj _ _ 49 that that SCONJ IN _ 53 mark _ _ 50 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 51 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 52 presently presently ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 53 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 54 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 xcomp _ _ 55 » » PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **invite** | present | the polite Water Rat | crew | | | | to lunch | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Sea Rat | | crew | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Sea Rat *not said here* | lunch | | | | outside *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the crew *= crew* | | | | | fond *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | the crew *= crew* *not said here* | | | hatches | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under hatch=Location | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | lunch | | | | | to hundred one; indoors *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **fall** *in a quote* | shall | hundred one | | | | | asleep, presently *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:16`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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