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title: Round a bend they see Toad Hall: a grand old red-brick house with la… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Round a bend they see Toad Hall: a grand old red-brick house with lawns down to the water. Who acts: people. 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 with its depend
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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 8

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Round a bend they see Toad Hall: a grand old red-brick house with lawns down to the water.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** Toad Hall

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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 (people), 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:8
# text = Round a bend they see Toad Hall: a grand old red-brick house with lawns down to the water.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Round	round	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bend	bend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
10	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
12	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	lawns	lawn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **see** | present | people | Toad Hall |  |  |  | round a bend | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hall=Stimulus |

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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:029-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall.lesson:8`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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