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title: Old words: «pettishly» = sulkily; «folly» = silliness; «hitherto inc… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Old words: «pettishly» = sulkily; «folly» = silliness; «hitherto incredulous» = until now not believing; «penitence» = being sorry; «appreciated» = valued; «domestic litter» = household rubbish. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door), sentence 39

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Old words: «pettishly» = sulkily; «folly» = silliness; «hitherto incredulous» = until now not believing; «penitence» = being sorry; «appreciated» = valued; «domestic litter» = household rubbish.

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**What happens:** not believe, be, appreciate, value · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door)» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.lesson:39
# text = Old words: «pettishly» = sulkily; «folly» = silliness; «hitherto incredulous» = until now not believing; «penitence» = being sorry; «appreciated» = valued; «domestic litter» = household rubbish.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.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 ×3
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	pettishly	pettishly	ADV	RB	_	2	appos	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	sulkily	sulkily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
13	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	silliness	silliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
17	hitherto	hitherto	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	advmod	_	_
18	incredulous	incredulous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	appos	_	_
20	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
21	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	«	«	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	penitence	penitence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	_
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
29	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
31	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
34	appreciated	appreciate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	ccomp	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
37	valued	value	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
40	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	litter	litter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	advmod	_	_
42	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
43	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **believe** | gerund |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **appreciate** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **value** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:036-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper.lesson:39`.

**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 ×3. **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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