--- title: Then he straps on a belt, pushes two pistols into it, takes a big st… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: Then he straps on a belt, pushes two pistols into it, takes a big stick, and sets off for the Wild Wood at a smart pace. Who acts: Rat. 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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 (Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood.lesson:13 # text = Then he straps on a belt, pushes two pistols into it, takes a big stick, and sets off for the Wild Wood at a smart pace. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-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): no change 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 straps strap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 pistols pistol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 sets set VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 off off ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Wild Wild PROPN NNP _ 25 flat _ _ 25 Wood Wood PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 pace pace NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **strap** | present | Rat | | | | then | on a belt | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on belt=Co-Patient | | 2 | **push** | present | Rat *not said here* | two pistols | | belt | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pistol=Theme into it=Destination | | 3 | **take** | present | Rat *not said here* | a big stick | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | | 4 | **set off** | present | Rat *not said here* | | | | | for the Wild Wood; at a smart pace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood.lesson:13`. **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): no change. **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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