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title: «And he—he was alone, and unarmed, and far from any help; and the ni… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: «And he—he was alone, and unarmed, and far from any help; and the night was closing in.» Who acts: Rat, night. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out)» of the books course of Mova's primary
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 18

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«And he—he was alone, and unarmed, and far from any help; and the night was closing in.»

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**Who acts:** Rat, night · **What happens:** be, close in

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out)» 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 (Rat, night), 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:18
# text = «And he—he was alone, and unarmed, and far from any help; and the night was closing in.»
# 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 ×4
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	discourse	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	appos	_	_
4	—	—	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	unarmed	unarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	closing	close	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
23	in	in	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Rat |  |  |  |  | alone, far, unarm *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **close in** *in a quote* | past · progressive | the night |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:034-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-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): R6-punct-agree ×4. **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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