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title: When the Rat wakes, his eyes are brown again but he is flat and sad;… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Rat wakes, his eyes are brown again but he is flat and sad; the tactful Mole chats about the harvest, apples and cosy winter, then leaves a pencil and paper by him, and soon the Rat is scribbling poetry: the cure has begun. Who acts: Rat, eyes, tactful Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The Wi
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 4

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When the Rat wakes, his eyes are brown again but he is flat and sad; the tactful Mole chats about the harvest, apples and cosy winter, then leaves a pencil and paper by him, and soon the Rat is scribbling poetry: the cure has begun.

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**Who acts:** Rat, eyes, tactful Mole · **What happens:** wake, be, chat, leave, scribble, begin · **To what, where:** pencil, poetry, cure

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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 (Rat, eyes, tactful Mole), 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:4
# text = When the Rat wakes, his eyes are brown again but he is flat and sad; the tactful Mole chats about the harvest, apples and cosy winter, then leaves a pencil and paper by him, and soon the Rat is scribbling poetry: the cure has begun.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wakes	wake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advcl	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	tactful	tactful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	chats	chat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:appos
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	cosy	cosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	pencil	pencil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
41	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	45	advmod	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=45:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	scribbling	scribble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
46	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
47	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	parataxis	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32: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 | **wake** | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Rat's eyes |  |  |  | again | brown *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Rat |  |  |  |  | flat *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **chat** *speech: other* | present | the tactful Mole |  |  |  |  | about the harvest and apples and cosy winter | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about harvest=Topic |
| 6 | **leave** | present |  | a pencil and paper |  |  | then | by Rat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme by he=Location |
| 7 | **scribble** | present · progressive | the Rat | poetry |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poetry=Theme |
| 8 | **begin** | present · perfect · passive |  | the cure |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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: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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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