--- title: In the boat-house the boats were «slung from the cross beams or haul… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: In the boat-house the boats were «slung from the cross beams or hauled up on a slip, but none in the water» (the Mole, who can row now, had shipped his sculls as they glided in); «Boating is played out. Who acts: Mole, boats. 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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 (Mole, boats), 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:31 # text = In the boat-house the boats were «slung from the cross beams or hauled up on a slip, but none in the water» (the Mole, who can row now, had shipped his sculls as they glided in); «Boating is played out. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 10 slung sling VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 cross cross NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 beams beam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 hauled haul VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 slip slip NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 7 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 row row VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 shipped ship VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 sculls scull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 as as SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 glided glide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 44 in in ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=44:punct 46 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 47 « « PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 48 Boating boating NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=50:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 49 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux:pass _ _ 50 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 parataxis _ _ 51 out out ADP RP _ 50 compound:prt _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sling** *in a quote* | past · passive | | the boats | | the boat house | | from the cross beams | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in house=Destination | | 2 | **haul up** *in a quote* | participle | | | | a slip | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **row** | can | the Mole | | | | now | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **ship** | past · perfect | the Mole | Mole's sculls | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scull=Theme | | 5 | **glide** | past | boats *= boat* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **play out** *in a quote* | present · passive | | Boating | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:31`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. 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