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title: In winter «cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors» (mir… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: In winter «cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors» (miry = muddy), and the swollen river raced past «with a speed that mocked at boating of any sort». Who acts: swollen river, speed, sort. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 18

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In winter «cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors» (miry = muddy), and the swollen river raced past «with a speed that mocked at boating of any sort».

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**Who acts:** swollen river, speed, sort · **What happens:** keep, race, mock, boat · **To what, where:** ways, boating

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone)» 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 (swollen river, speed, sort), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.lesson:18
# text = In winter «cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors» (miry = muddy), and the swollen river raced past «with a speed that mocked at boating of any sort».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	miry	miry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	miry	miry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
17	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	swollen	swollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
24	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	raced	race	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
26	past	past	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	mocked	mock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	boating	boating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **keep** *in a quote* | past |  | ways *= way* |  |  | winter | indoors *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **race** | past | the swollen river |  |  |  |  | with a speed; past *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mock** *in a quote* | past | a speed |  |  | boating of any sort |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **boat** *in a quote* |  | any sort |  |  |  |  |  | nom boating «act intransitive»: of=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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**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:033-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood.lesson:18`.

**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 ×1, 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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