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title: «animal-etiquette forbade any sort of comment on the sudden disappea… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: «animal-etiquette forbade any sort of comment on the sudden disappearance of one's friends at any moment, for any reason or no reason whatever.» Who acts: animal etiquette, friends. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, 
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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 34

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«animal-etiquette forbade any sort of comment on the sudden disappearance of one's friends at any moment, for any reason or no reason whatever.»

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**Who acts:** animal etiquette, friends · **What happens:** forbid, sort, disappear · **To what, where:** sort, comment

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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 (animal etiquette, friends), 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:34
# text = «animal-etiquette forbade any sort of comment on the sudden disappearance of one's friends at any moment, for any reason or no reason whatever.»
# 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	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	etiquette	etiquette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	forbade	forbid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	comment	comment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	acl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	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 | **forbid** *in a quote* | past | animal etiquette | any sort of comment on the sudden disappearance of one's friends at any moment |  |  |  | for any reason or no reason | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer sort=Theme |
| 2 | **sort** *in a quote* |  |  | comment on the sudden disappearance of one's friends at any moment |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **disappear** *in a quote* |  | one's friends at any moment |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:34`.

**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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