--- title: Old words: «confronted» = turned to face; «braced himself up» = got… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: Old words: «confronted» = turned to face; «braced himself up» = got ready to be brave; «hearken» = listen; «slacken pace» = slow down; «grave» = serious and worried; «at a smart pace» = quickly. Who acts: Old words. 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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 (Old words), 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:33 # text = Old words: «confronted» = turned to face; «braced himself up» = got ready to be brave; «hearken» = listen; «slacken pace» = slow down; «grave» = serious and worried; «at a smart pace» = quickly. # 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 confronted confront VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 = = PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 10 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 braced brace VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 17 = = PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 ccomp _ _ 19 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 22 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 25 hearken hearken VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 = = PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 listen listen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 31 slacken slacken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 pace pace NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 34 = = PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 slow slow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 36 down down ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 « « PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 39 grave grave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 40 » » PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 41 = = PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 conj _ _ 45 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 46 « « PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=51:punct 47 at at ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 pace pace NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 51 » » PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ 52 = = PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 53 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **confront** *in a quote* | participle | | Old words *not said here* | | | | | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **turn** | past | Old words | | | face | | at a smart pace; quickly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to face=Source at pace=Trajectory | | 3 | **brace up** *in a quote* | past | Old words *not said here* | Rat | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **get** | participle | Old words *not said here* | | | | | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | Old words *not said here* | | | | | brave *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **hearken** *in a quote* | infinitive | Old words *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **listen** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **slow down** | infinitive | Old words *not said here* | slacken pace | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pace=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:33`. **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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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