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title: The Water Rat asks if it is «very hot and stuffy, down in the — hold… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Water Rat asks if it is «very hot and stuffy, down in the — hold» (the hold is the inside of a ship where the cargo goes). Who acts: Water Rat, ship, hold, cargo. 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
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road), sentence 8

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The Water Rat asks if it is «very hot and stuffy, down in the — hold» (the hold is the inside of a ship where the cargo goes).

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**Who acts:** Water Rat, ship, hold, cargo · **What happens:** ask, be, go · **To what, where:** inside · **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, hold, cargo), 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:8
# text = The Water Rat asks if it is «very hot and stuffy, down in the — hold» (the hold is the inside of a ship where the cargo goes).
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	stuffy	stuffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	parataxis	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	cargo	cargo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Water Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | ship |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* |  | ship *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the hold | the inside |  |  |  | of a ship | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | present | the cargo |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R6-punct-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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