--- title: The Rat tells him off: while Toad rode about in cars and on horses,… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 3: «Li… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat tells him off: while Toad rode about in cars and on horses, those two loyal friends have been camping out in all weathers, watching his house and planning to get it back. Who acts: Rat, Toad, two loyal friends. 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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 (Rat, Toad, two loyal friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:2 # text = The Rat tells him off: while Toad rode about in cars and on horses, those two loyal friends have been camping out in all weathers, watching his house and planning to get it back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 while while SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 18 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 19 loyal loyal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 21 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 aux _ _ 23 camping camp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 weathers weather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 parataxis _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=29:cc 33 planning planning VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 back back ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell off** *speech: assert* | present | the Rat | | Toad | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 2 | **ride** | past | Toad | | | cars and horses | | about *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **camp out** | present · perfect · progressive | that two loyal friends | | | all weathers | | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in weather=Location | | 4 | **watch** | gerund | | Toad's house | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 5 | **planning** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **get back** | to-infinitive | | house | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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:067-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home.lesson:2`. **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 ×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. 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