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title: Standing up, the Sea Rat tells of the little grey harbour town where… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: Standing up, the Sea Rat tells of the little grey harbour town where he will wait for the right ship, pointing South, and then softly invites him: «And you, you will come too, young brother» — just bang the door behind you and step out. Who acts: Sea Rat, Rat, you. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 1

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Standing up, the Sea Rat tells of the little grey harbour town where he will wait for the right ship, pointing South, and then softly invites him: «And you, you will come too, young brother» — just bang the door behind you and step out.

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**Who acts:** Sea Rat, Rat, you · **What happens:** stand up, tell, wait, point, invite, come · **To what, where:** Rat, door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Rat, you), 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:1
# text = Standing up, the Sea Rat tells of the little grey harbour town where he will wait for the right ship, pointing South, and then softly invites him: «And you, you will come too, young brother» — just bang the door behind you and step out.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	up	up	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
5	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nmod
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	South	south	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
28	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	invites	invite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
32	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
33	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
39	too	too	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	vocative	_	_
43	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
44	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	just	just	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	bang	bang	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	38	parataxis	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=46:cc
52	step	step	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
53	out	out	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **stand up** | gerund | the Sea Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Sea Rat |  |  |  |  | of the little grey harbour town | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wait** | future | Rat |  |  |  |  | for the right ship | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **point** | gerund | Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | south *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **invite** | present | Rat *not said here* |  | Rat |  | then | softly *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 6 | **come** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | young brother *vocative* | tree rules |
| 7 | **bang** | infinitive |  | the door |  |  |  | behind you | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent door=Theme behind you=Trajectory |
| 8 | **step out** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «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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**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:060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.lesson:1`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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