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title: «he knew it at last, in all its fullness ... that thing which the Ra… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: «he knew it at last, in all its fullness ... that thing which the Rat had vainly tried to shield him from—the Terror of the Wild Wood!» (vainly = without success). Who acts: pattering, Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistlin
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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 24

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«he knew it at last, in all its fullness ... that thing which the Rat had vainly tried to shield him from—the Terror of the Wild Wood!» (vainly = without success).

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**Who acts:** pattering, Rat · **What happens:** know, try, shield · **To what, where:** rabbit, last, pattering, Terror

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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 (pattering, 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:24
# text = «he knew it at last, in all its fullness ... that thing which the Rat had vainly tried to shield him from—the Terror of the Wild Wood!» (vainly = without success).
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fullness	fullness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	vainly	vainly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	shield	shield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
31	Wood	Wood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	38	punct	_	_
35	vainly	vainly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	without	without	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	parataxis	_	_
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **know** *in a quote* | past | pattering *= patter* | rabbit |  | last |  | in rabbit's fullness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **try** *in a quote* | past · perfect | the Rat |  |  |  |  | vainly *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **shield** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Rat *not said here* | pattering *= patter* |  | the Terror of the Wild Wood |  |  | tree rules |

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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:24`.

**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, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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