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title: He wears a long dressing-gown, carries a flat candlestick, and «had… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: He wears a long dressing-gown, carries a flat candlestick, and «had probably been on his way to bed». Who acts: Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with i
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen), sentence 13

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He wears a long dressing-gown, carries a flat candlestick, and «had probably been on his way to bed».

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**Who acts:** Mole · **What happens:** wear, carry, have, be · **To what, where:** long dressing gown, flat candlestick, way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen)» 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 (Mole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.lesson:13
# text = He wears a long dressing-gown, carries a flat candlestick, and «had probably been on his way to bed».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.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	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	dressing	dressing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	candlestick	candlestick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | Mole | a long dressing gown |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gown=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | present | Mole *not said here* | a flat candlestick |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candlestick=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Mole *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  | Mole's way |  | to bed; probably *property* | tree rules |

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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:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.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): 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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