--- title: «Then the whistling began.» — first «far behind him», then «far ahea… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: «Then the whistling began.» — first «far behind him», then «far ahead of him», then «on either side», passed along the whole wood. Who acts: whistling. 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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 (whistling), 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:17 # text = «Then the whistling began.» — first «far behind him», then «far ahead of him», then «on either side», passed along the whole wood. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 2 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 whistling whistling NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 6 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 — - PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 advmod _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 11 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 12 behind behind ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 conj _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 17 « « PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 18 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 19 ahead ahead ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 22 » » PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 either either DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 32 along along ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | the whistling | | | | then | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **pass** | participle | | | | either side | then; then | along the whole wood; far *property* | tree rules | 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:17`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/34-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood/16/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/34-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/34-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood/)