--- title: «He had got down to the bare bones of it, and they were fine and str… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: «He had got down to the bare bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple.» — he liked the countryside «undecorated, hard, and stripped of its finery». Who acts: loosestrife, bones. 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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 (loosestrife, bones), 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:23 # text = «He had got down to the bare bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple.» — he liked the countryside «undecorated, hard, and stripped of its finery». # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 5 down down ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 23 — - PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 liked like VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 countryside countryside NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 undecorated undecorated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 acl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 stripped strip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 finery finery NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get down** *in a quote* | past · perfect | loosestrife | | | | | to the bare bones of play *result*; down *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to bone=Result | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | bones *= bone* | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** *in a quote* | | bones *= bone* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | | bones *= bone* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **like** | past | loosestrife | the countryside | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot countryside=Theme | | 6 | **strip** *in a quote* | past | loosestrife *not said here* | | | | | of play's finery | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. 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