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title: Packing up: a plate «staring up at him from the grass», a fork «whic… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Packing up: a plate «staring up at him from the grass», a fork «which anybody ought to have seen», and «the mustard pot, which he had been sitting on without knowing it». Who acts: plate, etiquette. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a gl
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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 35

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Packing up: a plate «staring up at him from the grass», a fork «which anybody ought to have seen», and «the mustard pot, which he had been sitting on without knowing it».

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**Who acts:** plate, etiquette · **What happens:** pack up, stare up, have, see, sit on, know · **To what, where:** plate, grass, mustard pot

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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 (plate, etiquette), 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:35
# text = Packing up: a plate «staring up at him from the grass», a fork «which anybody ought to have seen», and «the mustard pot, which he had been sitting on without knowing it».
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Packing	pack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
20	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nsubj
21	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:aux
23	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	mustard	mustard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:nsubj:outer
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	aux	_	_
37	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:conj
38	on	on	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
39	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pack up** | gerund |  | a plate and a fork and the mustard pot |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent plate=Theme |
| 2 | **stare up** *in a quote* | gerund | a plate and a fork and the mustard pot *not said here* |  |  | the grass |  | at etiquette | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | ought |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 5 | **sit on** *in a quote* | past · perfect · progressive | etiquette | the mustard pot |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme |
| 6 | **know** *in a quote* | gerund | etiquette *not said here* | plate |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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