--- title: Then they turn into a quiet backwater by a weir and an old mill, so… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Then they turn into a quiet backwater by a weir and an old mill, so beautiful that the Mole can only gasp «O my! Who acts: manners, Mole. 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](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/9/) [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/) / 9 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World), sentence 9 Then they turn into a quiet backwater by a weir and an old mill, so beautiful that the Mole can only gasp «O my! **Who acts:** manners, Mole · **What happens:** turn, gasp · **To what, where:** quiet backwater 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 (manners, Mole), 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:9 # text = Then they turn into a quiet backwater by a weir and an old mill, so beautiful that the Mole can only gasp «O my! # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 backwater backwater NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 weir weir NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 gasp gasp VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 25 O of INTJ UH _ 26 discourse _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 parataxis _ _ 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | manners | | | a quiet backwater by a weir and a old mill | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **gasp** | can | the Mole | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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. 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