--- title: The passage is «long, gloomy, and, to tell the truth, decidedly shab… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: The passage is «long, gloomy, and, to tell the truth, decidedly shabby»; other tunnels branch off from a central hall, «mysterious and without apparent end». Who acts: passage, other tunnels. 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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 (passage, other tunnels), 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:16 # text = The passage is «long, gloomy, and, to tell the truth, decidedly shabby»; other tunnels branch off from a central hall, «mysterious and without apparent end». # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 gloomy gloomy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 16 decidedly decidedly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 shabby shabby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 branch branch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 23 off off ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 central central ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 mysterious mysterious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc 32 without without ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 apparent apparent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the passage | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | | the passage *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the passage *not said here* | the truth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | | the passage *not said here* | | | | | decidedly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **branch off** | present | other tunnels | | | | | from a central hall | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from hall=Co-Theme | 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:037-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger.lesson:16`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/14/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/)