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title: But as a matter of fact I did none of it—only cleaned out the passag… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: But as a matter of fact I did none of it—only cleaned out the passages and chambers, as far as I had need of them.» Who acts: I, fact. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home)» of the books course of Mova's pri
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home), sentence 17

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But as a matter of fact I did none of it—only cleaned out the passages and chambers, as far as I had need of them.»

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**Who acts:** I, fact · **What happens:** do, clean out, have, matter, need · **To what, where:** none, passages, need, chambers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home)» 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 (I, fact), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:040-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood.lesson:17
# text = But as a matter of fact I did none of it—only cleaned out the passages and chambers, as far as I had need of them.»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 040-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-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): R5-strong ×3
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	discourse	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:parataxis
9	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
26	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	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 | **do** | past | I | none |  |  |  | as a matter of fact | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Eventuality |
| 2 | **clean out** | past |  | the passages and chambers |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent passage=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past | I | need of chambers |  |  |  | far *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient |
| 4 | **matter** |  | fact |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **need** |  |  | chambers *= chamber* |  |  |  |  | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×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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