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title: The animals tell stories of the summer — which the writer paints as… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: The animals tell stories of the summer — which the writer paints as a play where the flowers come on stage one by one, until June arrives. Who acts: animals, writer, flowers, June. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out al
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone), sentence 3

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The animals tell stories of the summer — which the writer paints as a play where the flowers come on stage one by one, until June arrives.

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**Who acts:** animals, writer, flowers, June · **What happens:** tell, paint, come, arrive · **To what, where:** stories, summer, one, stage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (animals, writer, flowers, June), 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:3
# text = The animals tell stories of the summer — which the writer paints as a play where the flowers come on stage one by one, until June arrives.
# 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det
11	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	paints	paint	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the animals | stories of the summer |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 2 | **paint** | present | the writer | the summer |  |  |  | as a play | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent which=Theme as play=Attribute |
| 3 | **come** | present | the flowers | one by one |  | stage |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stage=Location |
| 4 | **arrive** | present | June |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:3`.

**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. **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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