--- title: It seems alive — chattering, chuckling, sparkling — and he sits on t… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: It seems alive — chattering, chuckling, sparkling — and he sits on the bank, spellbound, as if it were telling him stories. Who acts: It, Mole, bank. 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 b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/5/) [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 I, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/) / 5 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 5 It seems alive — chattering, chuckling, sparkling — and he sits on the bank, spellbound, as if it were telling him stories. **Who acts:** It, Mole, bank · **What happens:** seem, chatter, chuckle, sparkle, sit, tell · **To what, where:** bank, stories, Mole · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (It, Mole, bank), 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:5 # text = It seems alive — chattering, chuckling, sparkling — and he sits on the bank, spellbound, as if it were telling him stories. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 — - PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 5 chattering chatter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 chuckling chuckle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 sparkling sparkle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 10 — - PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 spellbound spellbound ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ _ 26 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | present | It | | | | | alive *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **chatter** | gerund | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **chuckle** | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sparkle** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **sit** | present | Mole | | | the bank | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | bank | stories | Mole | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | 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:5`. **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, 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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