--- title: The car came first as «a faint warning hum; like the drone of a dist… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics description: The car came first as «a faint warning hum; like the drone of a distant bee», then «a small cloud of dust, with a dark centre of energy», and «a faint "Poop-poop!" wailed like an uneasy animal in pain». Who acts: car, faint Poop poop. 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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 (car, faint Poop poop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.lesson:34 # text = The car came first as «a faint warning hum; like the drone of a distant bee», then «a small cloud of dust, with a dark centre of energy», and «a faint "Poop-poop!" wailed like an uneasy animal in pain». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 5 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 faint faint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 hum hum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 drone drone NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 38 « « PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=47:punct 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:det 40 faint faint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 42 Poop poop NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ _ 44 poop poop NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 45 ! ! PUNCT . _ 44 punct _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 47 wailed wail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 48 like like ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 uneasy uneasy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ _ 54 » » PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the car | | | | | as a faint warning hum like the drone of a distant bee and a small cloud of dust with a dark centre of energy; first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wail** *in a quote* | past | a faint Poop poop | | | | | like a uneasy animal in pain | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cloud** *in a quote* | | | dust | | | | with a dark centre of energy | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient with=obl | 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:031-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop.lesson:34`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…, 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop/31/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p…, 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop/36/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop/)