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title: The caravan was «shining with newness, painted a canary-yellow picke… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: The caravan was «shining with newness, painted a canary-yellow picked out with green, and red wheels». Who acts: caravan. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan), sentence 25

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The caravan was «shining with newness, painted a canary-yellow picked out with green, and red wheels».

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**Who acts:** caravan · **What happens:** shine, paint, pick out · **To what, where:** canary yellow

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan)» 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 (caravan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.lesson:25
# text = The caravan was «shining with newness, painted a canary-yellow picked out with green, and red wheels».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 030-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
5	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	appos	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	newness	newness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
9	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det
11	canary	canary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	yellow	yellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
14	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:amod
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **shine** *in a quote* | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | with newness | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with newness=Theme |
| 2 | **paint** *in a quote* | past | the caravan | a canary yellow |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent yellow=Patient wheel=Result |
| 3 | **pick out** *in a quote* | participle |  | a canary yellow *not said here* |  |  |  | with green | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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