--- title: The Rat tells the Mole there is «nothing — absolute nothing — half s… — Off with her head and the finest house on the ri… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rat tells the Mole there is «nothing — absolute nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats»; it is a loving exaggeration, the way people talk about what they love most. Who acts: Rat, Mole, way people, People. 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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, Mole, way people, People), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:19 # text = The Rat tells the Mole there is «nothing — absolute nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats»; it is a loving exaggeration, the way people talk about what they love most. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 7 expl _ _ 7 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 9 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 7 nsubj _ _ 10 — - PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 11 absolute absolute ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 9 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 13 — - PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 12 conj _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 much much ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 18 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 20 simply simply ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 messing mess VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 22 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 loving loving ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 exaggeration exaggeration NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:det 34 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 37 about about ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 obl _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 40 advmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Rat | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **be** | present | the Mole | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | the Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mess** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | about boats; simply *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | Rat | a loving exaggeration | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **talk** | present | way people | | | | | about a loving exaggeration | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about what=Topic | | 7 | **love** | present | People | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | 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:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:19`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [Off with her head and the finest house…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/18/) - next →: [Off with her head and the finest house…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/)