--- title: The chapter ends: «with his ear to the reed-stems he caught, at inte… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The chapter ends: «with his ear to the reed-stems he caught, at intervals, something of what the wind went whispering so constantly among them.» Who acts: chapter, wind. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chapter, wind), 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:38 # text = The chapter ends: «with his ear to the reed-stems he caught, at intervals, something of what the wind went whispering so constantly among them.» # 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): R5-strong ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 chapter chapter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 reed reed NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 stems stem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl:relcl 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 intervals interval NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 obl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 26 whispering whisper VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 xcomp _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 constantly constantly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 among among ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **end** | present | the chapter | | | | | with chapter's ear to the reed stems | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **catch** *in a quote* | past | chapter | something | | intervals | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent something=Theme at interval=Asset | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | past | the wind | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **whisper** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | the wind *not said here* | | | | | among intervals *= interval*; constantly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location | 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. **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. 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