--- title: In February floods the brown water runs by his best bedroom window;… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics description: In February floods the brown water runs by his best bedroom window; in dry times the mud «smells like plum-cake» and he finds things «careless people have dropped out of boats». Who acts: brown water, mud, careless 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 (brown water, mud, careless people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.lesson:18 # text = In February floods the brown water runs by his best bedroom window; in dry times the mud «smells like plum-cake» and he finds things «careless people have dropped out of boats». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 February February PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 floods flood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 10 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 11 bedroom bedroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 smells smell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 21 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 plum plum NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 29 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 31 careless careless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 acl:relcl _ _ 35 out out ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | present | the brown water | | | February floods | | by water's best bedroom window | tree rules | | 2 | **smell** *in a quote* | present | the mud | | | | time | like plum cake | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **find** | present | mud | things | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 4 | **drop out** *in a quote* | present · perfect | careless people | boats | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | 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:026-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood.lesson:18`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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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