--- title: Then the whistling begins — faint and shrill, behind him, then ahead… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the whistling begins — faint and shrill, behind him, then ahead, then on both sides, passed along through the whole wood. Who acts: whistling. 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)» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/34-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/34-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood/) / 3 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out), sentence 3 Then the whistling begins — faint and shrill, behind him, then ahead, then on both sides, passed along through the whole wood. **Who acts:** whistling · **What happens:** begin, pass along · **To what, where:** sides, whole wood 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 (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:3 # text = Then the whistling begins — faint and shrill, behind him, then ahead, then on both sides, passed along through 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): no change 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 whistling whistling NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 — - PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 6 faint faint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 shrill shrill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 behind behind ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 14 ahead ahead ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 22 along along ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 through through ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** | present | the whistling | | | both sides | then | behind hole; ahead *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **pass along** | participle | | both sides *not said here* | | the whole wood | | along *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=Location | 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. 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