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title: More of the song: «Slushy green undergrowth Where the roach swim— He… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: More of the song: «Slushy green undergrowth Where the roach swim— Here we keep our larder, Cool and full and dim.» (roach = a small river fish; larder = food store) and «Everyone for what he likes! Who acts: roach, we. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open R
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall), sentence 17

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More of the song: «Slushy green undergrowth Where the roach swim— Here we keep our larder, Cool and full and dim.» (roach = a small river fish; larder = food store) and «Everyone for what he likes!

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**Who acts:** roach, we · **What happens:** swim, keep, like · **To what, where:** larder

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall)» 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 (roach, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:17
# text = More of the song: «Slushy green undergrowth Where the roach swim— Here we keep our larder, Cool and full and dim.» (roach = a small river fish; larder = food store) and «Everyone for what he likes!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
7	Slushy	slushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	undergrowth	undergrowth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	roach	roach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
15	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	larder	larder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
29	roach	roach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
30	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	larder	larder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
37	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	_
43	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	29	conj	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	nmod	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
48	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29: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 | **swim** *in a quote* | present | the roach |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | we | our larder |  | here |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent larder=Theme |
| 3 | **like** *in a quote* | present | roach |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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