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title: We river-bankers, we hardly ever come here by ourselves. — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: We river-bankers, we hardly ever come here by ourselves. Who acts: we. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes), sentence 25

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We river-bankers, we hardly ever come here by ourselves.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** come

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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 (we), 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:25
# text = We river-bankers, we hardly ever come here by ourselves.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	dislocated	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
4	bankers	banker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | we |  |  | here | ever | by ourselves; We *dislocated*; hardly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by ourselves=Location |

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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:035-willows-ch3-part3-snow-in-the-wild-wood.lesson:25`.

**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 ×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.

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

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