--- title: For an hour or two they stumble on, pretending every tree is an old… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: For an hour or two they stumble on, pretending every tree is an old friend, falling into holes, soaked and bruised. Who acts: laughter, tree. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes)» of the books course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/35-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood/13/) [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/35-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood/) / 13 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes), sentence 13 For an hour or two they stumble on, pretending every tree is an old friend, falling into holes, soaked and bruised. **Who acts:** laughter, tree · **What happens:** stumble on, pretend, be, fall, soak, bruise · **To what, where:** old friend, holes This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes)» 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 (laughter, tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood.lesson:13 # text = For an hour or two they stumble on, pretending every tree is an old friend, falling into holes, soaked and bruised. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-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 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 conj _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 stumble stumble VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 on on ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 pretending pretend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 ccomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 soaked soak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 parataxis _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 bruised bruise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **stumble on** | present | laughter | | | | hour | | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **pretend** | gerund | laughter *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | every tree | a old friend | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fall** | gerund | laughter *not said here* | | | | | into holes *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hole=Result | | 5 | **soak** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **bruise** | participle | | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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:035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood.lesson:13`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/35-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood/12/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/35-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/35-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood/)