--- title: The backwater has a weir (a low wall across a river that water tumbl… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The backwater has a weir (a low wall across a river that water tumbles over) and «a restless dripping mill-wheel» turning beside a «grey-gabled mill-house». Who acts: backwater, water, restless dripping mill wheel. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood/33/) [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/26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood/) / 33 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 33 The backwater has a weir (a low wall across a river that water tumbles over) and «a restless dripping mill-wheel» turning beside a «grey-gabled mill-house». **Who acts:** backwater, water, restless dripping mill wheel · **What happens:** have, tumble over, drip, turn, gable · **To what, where:** weir, river, gabled mill house This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World)» 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 (backwater, water, restless dripping mill wheel), 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:33 # text = The backwater has a weir (a low wall across a river that water tumbles over) and «a restless dripping mill-wheel» turning beside a «grey-gabled mill-house». # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 backwater backwater NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 weir weir NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 10 across across ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 obj _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 tumbles tumble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 over over ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 21 restless restless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 22 dripping drip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 amod _ _ 23 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 acl _ _ 28 beside beside ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 31 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:amod 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 gabled gable VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 amod _ _ 34 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 36 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **have** | present | the backwater | a weir and a restless dripping mill wheel | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weir=Patient | | 2 | **tumble over** | present | water | a river | | | | over *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme | | 3 | **drip** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 4 | **turn** | gerund | a restless dripping mill wheel *not said here* | | | a gabled mill house | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme beside house=Trajectory | | 5 | **gable** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:33`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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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