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title: «A broad glistening muzzle showed itself above the edge of the bank,… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: «A broad glistening muzzle showed itself above the edge of the bank, and the Otter hauled himself out». Who acts: broad glistening muzzle, Otter. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat)» of the bo
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat), sentence 15

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«A broad glistening muzzle showed itself above the edge of the bank, and the Otter hauled himself out».

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**Who acts:** broad glistening muzzle, Otter · **What happens:** glisten, show, haul out · **To what, where:** muzzle, edge, Otter

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat)» 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 (broad glistening muzzle, Otter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:027-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad.lesson:15
# text = «A broad glistening muzzle showed itself above the edge of the bank, and the Otter hauled himself out».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 027-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad.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): no change
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	glistening	glisten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	muzzle	muzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	above	above	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Otter	otter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hauled	haul	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glisten** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **show** *in a quote* | past | a broad glistening muzzle | muzzle |  | the edge of the bank |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient |
| 3 | **haul out** *in a quote* | past | the Otter | Otter |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |

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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.

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**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:027-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad.lesson:15`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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