--- title: «Then a coal slipped, the fire crackled and sent up a spurt of flame… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: «Then a coal slipped, the fire crackled and sent up a spurt of flame, and he woke with a start»; he wanted to ask the Mole «if he knew a good rhyme for something or other». Who acts: coal, fire, Mole, flame. 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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 (coal, fire, Mole, flame), 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:26 # text = «Then a coal slipped, the fire crackled and sent up a spurt of flame, and he woke with a start»; he wanted to ask the Mole «if he knew a good rhyme for something or other». # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 crackled crackle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 spurt spurt NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 woke wake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 33 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:ccomp 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 rhyme rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 38 nmod _ _ 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 conj _ _ 43 » » PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **slip** *in a quote* | past | a coal | | | | then | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **crackle** *in a quote* | past | the fire | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **send up** *in a quote* | past | the fire *not said here* | a spurt of flame | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spurt=Theme | | 4 | **wake** *in a quote* | past | fire | | | | | with a start | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with start=Instrument | | 5 | **want** | past | fire | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Mole | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | fire | a good rhyme | | | | for something | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer rhyme=Stimulus | | 8 | **spurt** *in a quote* | | flame | | | | | | nom spurt «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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:26`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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