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title: After lunch the Sea Rat leans close, his sea-grey eyes and the red g… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: After lunch the Sea Rat leans close, his sea-grey eyes and the red glow of his glass holding the Water Rat «body and soul»; his talk seems to turn into sailors' songs, wind, gulls and waves, until the Rat can hear and see nothing else. Who acts: Sea Rat, red glow, talk, Rat. A sentence of the lesson
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 0

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After lunch the Sea Rat leans close, his sea-grey eyes and the red glow of his glass holding the Water Rat «body and soul»; his talk seems to turn into sailors' songs, wind, gulls and waves, until the Rat can hear and see nothing else.

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**Who acts:** Sea Rat, red glow, talk, Rat, glass, sailors · **What happens:** lean, hold, seem, turn, hear, see · **To what, where:** Water Rat, songs, nothing

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure)» 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 (Sea Rat, red glow, talk, Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.lesson:0
# text = After lunch the Sea Rat leans close, his sea-grey eyes and the red glow of his glass holding the Water Rat «body and soul»; his talk seems to turn into sailors' songs, wind, gulls and waves, until the Rat can hear and see nothing else.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
4	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound
6	leans	lean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	'	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	gulls	gull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=43:conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=51:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
50	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	conj	_	_
54	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	53	obj	_	_
55	else	else	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **lean** | present | the Sea Rat |  |  |  | after lunch | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | the red glow of Rat's glass and body and soul *not said here* | the Water Rat |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | present | Rat's talk |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **turn** | to-infinitive | Rat's talk *not said here* |  |  | sailors's songs and wind and gulls and waves |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into song=Trajectory |
| 5 | **hear** | can | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **see** | infinitive | the Rat *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 7 | **glow** |  | Rat's glass |  |  |  |  |  | nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 8 | **talk** |  | Rat |  |  |  |  |  | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **sing** |  | sailors |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-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/).

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