--- title: The water is freezing; the Mole sinks, comes up spluttering, sinks a… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The water is freezing; the Mole sinks, comes up spluttering, sinks again — until a firm paw grabs his neck. Who acts: water, Mole, firm paw. 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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 (water, Mole, firm paw), 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:6 # text = The water is freezing; the Mole sinks, comes up spluttering, sinks again — until a firm paw grabs his neck. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 freezing freeze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 7 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound 8 sinks sink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 spluttering splutter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 sinks sink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 again again ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 — - PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 17 until until SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 firm firm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 grabs grab VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **freeze** | present · progressive | the water | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **sink** | present | the Mole | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **come up** | present | the Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **splutter** | gerund | the Mole *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sink** | present | the Mole *not said here* | | | | again | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **grab** | present | a firm paw | Mole's neck | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | 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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