--- title: The book says: «the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The book says: «the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.» Who acts: book, best part, other fellows. 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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 (book, best part, other fellows), 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:21 # text = The book says: «the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.» # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 13 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux _ _ 19 resting rest VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 20 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 25 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 28 det:predet _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 fellows fellow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 29 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:amod 30 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advcl 31 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the book | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | the best part of a holiday | | | | | much, perhaps *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **rest** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · progressive | the best part of a holiday *not said here* | yourself | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yourself=Theme | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the best part of a holiday *not said here* | all other fellows | | | | busy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fellow=Stimulus | | 5 | **work** *in a quote* | gerund | all other fellows *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:21`. **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, R7-rel-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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