--- title: Old words: «provender» = food; «forthwith» = at once; «rumpus» = noi… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics description: Old words: «provender» = food; «forthwith» = at once; «rumpus» = noise and fuss; «athwart» = across; «whereon» = on which; «Greedy beggars!» = a friendly tease, not a real insult. 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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: 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:38 # text = Old words: «provender» = food; «forthwith» = at once; «rumpus» = noise and fuss; «athwart» = across; «whereon» = on which; «Greedy beggars!» = a friendly tease, not a real insult. # 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): R2-punct-next ×2, R8-pos-agree ×6 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 5 provender provender NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 = = PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 11 forthwith forthwith ADV RB _ 2 conj _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 = = PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 once once ADV RB _ 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 18 rumpus rumpus NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 = = SYM SYM _ 21 punct _ _ 21 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 fuss fuss NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 26 athwart athwart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 = = PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 29 across across ADP IN _ 26 appos _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 32 whereon whereon ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 = = PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 appos _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 « « PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 39 Greedy greedy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 beggars beggar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ _ 42 » » PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 43 = = PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 tease tease NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 48 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 51 advmod _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 insult insult NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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:38`. **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): R2-punct-next ×2, R8-pos-agree ×6. **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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa…, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/37/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/28-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/)