--- title: In the snowy wood: snow slid off branches «with a flop!», there were… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: In the snowy wood: snow slid off branches «with a flop!», there were «snow-castles and snow-caverns», and «robins perched and hopped on them in their perky conceited way, just as if they had done it themselves». (Conceited = too proud of yourself.) 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(Conceited = too proud of yourself.) **Who acts:** snow, « snow castles, « robins, castles · **What happens:** slide off, be, perch, hop, do · **To what, where:** branches, snowy wood, perky conceited way, snow This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground)» 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 (snow, « snow castles, « robins, castles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:17 # text = In the snowy wood: snow slid off branches «with a flop!», there were «snow-castles and snow-caverns», and «robins perched and hopped on them in their perky conceited way, just as if they had done it themselves». (Conceited = too proud of yourself.) # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.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 ×2, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×5, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 snowy snowy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 slid slide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 8 off off ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 flop flop NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 14 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 17 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 18 expl _ _ 18 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 « « ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 castles castle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 24 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 caverns cavern NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 30 « « ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 robins robin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 32 perched perch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=32:cc 34 hopped hop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 39 perky perky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 conceited conceited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 43 just just ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 44 as as SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 45 if if SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 46 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 49 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 48 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=49:appos 51 » » PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 53 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 54 punct _ _ 54 Conceited conceited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 parataxis _ _ 55 = = PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 too too ADV RB _ 57 advmod _ _ 57 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 conj _ _ 58 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 57 obl _ _ 60 . . PUNCT . _ 54 punct _ _ 61 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 54 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slide off** | past | snow | branches | | the snowy wood | | with a flop | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent branch=Theme in wood=Trajectory | | 2 | **be** | past | « snow castles and snow caverns and « robins | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **perch** *in a quote* | past | « robins *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hop** *in a quote* | past | « robins *not said here* | | | castles's perky conceited way | | on castles *= castle* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | past · perfect | castles *= castle* | snow | | | | castles *= castle* *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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:039-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes.lesson:17`. **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 ×2, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×5, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/16/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/39-willows-ch4-part3-the-otter-and-underground-homes/)