--- title: Over lunch the Sea Rat tells the rest: the ports of Portugal and Fra… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: Over lunch the Sea Rat tells the rest: the ports of Portugal and France, the harbours of Cornwall and Devon, and the last stormy quay where the first hints of spring sent him inland to try a quiet farm — which the Water Rat doesn't want to hear about at all. 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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 (Sea Rat, first hints, Water Rat, spring), 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:4 # text = Over lunch the Sea Rat tells the rest: the ports of Portugal and France, the harbours of Cornwall and Devon, and the last stormy quay where the first hints of spring sent him inland to try a quiet farm — which the Water Rat doesn't want to hear about at all. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Over over ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ports port NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 harbours harbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Cornwall Cornwall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 Devon Devon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 stormy stormy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 quay quay NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 29 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 32 amod _ _ 32 hints hint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:iobj 37 inland inland ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 — - PUNCT : _ 50 punct _ _ 44 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 52 obl _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 Water Water PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 48 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 49 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 50 advmod _ _ 50 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 acl:relcl _ _ 51 to to PART TO _ 52 mark _ _ 52 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 50 xcomp _ _ 53 about about ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 54 at at ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 52 obl _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Sea Rat | the rest the ports of Portugal and France and the harbours of Cornwall and Devon | | lunch | | the last stormy quay *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Recipient | | 2 | **send** | past | the first hints of spring | Rat | | | | inland *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **try** | to-infinitive | the first hints of spring *not said here* | a quiet farm | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | the Water Rat | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Water Rat *not said here* | | | all | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about which=Stimulus | | 6 | **hint** | | spring | | | | | | nom hint «communication 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:059-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road.lesson:4`. **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, 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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/59-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road/2/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/59-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/59-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road/)