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title: Old words: «trudging» = walking heavily; «necessaries» = things you… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Old words: «trudging» = walking heavily; «necessaries» = things you need; «turned in» = went to bed; «whence» = from where; «fleet and unforeseen» = fast and unexpected; «after-career» = the rest of his life. Who acts: Old words, you. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, pa
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car), sentence 36

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Old words: «trudging» = walking heavily; «necessaries» = things you need; «turned in» = went to bed; «whence» = from where; «fleet and unforeseen» = fast and unexpected; «after-career» = the rest of his life.

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**Who acts:** Old words, you · **What happens:** trudge, walk, need, turn in, go · **To what, where:** things, whence, bed

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car)» 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 (Old words, you), 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:36
# text = Old words: «trudging» = walking heavily; «necessaries» = things you need; «turned in» = went to bed; «whence» = from where; «fleet and unforeseen» = fast and unexpected; «after-career» = the rest of his life.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
5	trudging	trudge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	dep	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
7	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
9	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	necessaries	necessary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
14	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	appos	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
23	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	whence	whence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
31	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	unforeseen	unforeseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
39	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
40	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	parataxis	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	_
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	_
46	after	after	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	_
48	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
50	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	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 | **trudge** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | Old words and things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **need** | present | you | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
| 4 | **turn in** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | past | Old words and things | whence |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location from where=Destination |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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