--- title: «Then the pattering began.» He thought at first it was falling leave… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: «Then the pattering began.» He thought at first it was falling leaves, but «he knew it for nothing else but the pat-pat-pat of little feet». Who acts: pattering, 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 (pattering, 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:19 # text = «Then the pattering began.» He thought at first it was falling leaves, but «he knew it for nothing else but the pat-pat-pat of little feet». # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 pattering patter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 6 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 obl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 amod _ _ 15 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 ccomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 20 obl _ _ 24 else else ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 27 pat pat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 29 pat pat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 pat pat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | the pattering | | | | then | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | pattering *= patter* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **fall** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | past | whistling | falling leaves | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **know** *in a quote* | past | pattering *= patter* | whistling | | | | for nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 6 | **pat** *in a quote* | | | little feet | | | | | nom pat «event transitive»: of=patient | 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:19`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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