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title: The book is «The Wind in the Willows» by Kenneth Grahame, first publ… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: The book is «The Wind in the Willows» by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908; the animals talk, wear clothes and live in little houses, but still live like animals in many ways. Who acts: book, animals. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mo
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 11

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The book is «The Wind in the Willows» by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908; the animals talk, wear clothes and live in little houses, but still live like animals in many ways.

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**Who acts:** book, animals · **What happens:** be, publish, talk, wear, live · **To what, where:** Wind, Willows, 1908, clothes, little houses, many ways · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat)» 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 (book, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:11
# text = The book is «The Wind in the Willows» by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908; the animals talk, wear clothes and live in little houses, but still live like animals in many ways.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Wind	wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Willows	willow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Kenneth	Kenneth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Grahame	Grahame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	advmod	_	_
16	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1908	1908	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
24	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	still	still	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=27:conj
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the book | the Wind |  | the Willows |  | by Kenneth Grahame | tree rules |
| 2 | **publish** | participle |  | the Willows *not said here* |  | 1908 |  | first *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **talk** | present | the animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wear** | present | the animals *not said here* | clothes |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source |
| 5 | **live** | present | the animals *not said here* |  |  | little houses |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 6 | **live** | present | the animals *not said here* |  |  | many ways | still | like animals | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |

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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:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:11`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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