--- title: And the Rat reveals he caught the invitations in time — Mole is now… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: And the Rat reveals he caught the invitations in time — Mole is now writing plain, simple ones in the blue boudoir (a small, pretty sitting-room). Who acts: Rat, Toad, Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOA --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/) / 16 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 16 And the Rat reveals he caught the invitations in time — Mole is now writing plain, simple ones in the blue boudoir (a small, pretty sitting-room). **Who acts:** Rat, Toad, Mole · **What happens:** reveal, catch, write · **To what, where:** invitations, plain simple ones, blue boudoir This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» 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, Toad, Mole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:16 # text = And the Rat reveals he caught the invitations in time — Mole is now writing plain, simple ones in the blue boudoir (a small, pretty sitting-room). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 3 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 reveals reveal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 invitations invitation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 11 — - PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 now now ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 writing write VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 16 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 boudoir boudoir NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 26 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 29 sitting sitting NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reveal** | present | the Rat | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **catch** | past | Toad | the invitations | | | time | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme | | 3 | **write** | present · progressive | Mole | plain simple ones | | the blue boudoir | now | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme in boudoir=Destination | 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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:16`. **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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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