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title: At home there's a warm fire, a dressing-gown and slippers, river sto… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: At home there's a warm fire, a dressing-gown and slippers, river stories till supper, and the best bedroom with the River lapping at the window. Who acts: warm fire, best bedroom. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins), sentence 12

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At home there's a warm fire, a dressing-gown and slippers, river stories till supper, and the best bedroom with the River lapping at the window.

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**Who acts:** warm fire, best bedroom · **What happens:** be, lap · **To what, where:** home

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins)» 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 (warm fire, best bedroom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.lesson:12
# text = At home there's a warm fire, a dressing-gown and slippers, river stories till supper, and the best bedroom with the River lapping at the window.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	home	home	NOUN	NN	_	4	obl	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	dressing	dressing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	till	till	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	River	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	lapping	lap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **does** | present | a warm fire and a dressing gown and slippers and river stories till supper and the best bedroom with the River |  |  | home; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 2 | **lap** | gerund | the best bedroom with the River *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the window | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at window=Patient |

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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:028-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh.lesson:12`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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