--- title: «Very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now … there wa… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: «Very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now … there was a city—a city of people, you know … They built to last, for they thought their city would last for ever.» Who acts: Wild Wood, city, you, people. 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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 (Wild Wood, city, you, people), 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:18 # text = «Very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now … there was a city—a city of people, you know … They built to last, for they thought their city would last for ever.» # 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 ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 2 Very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 3 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 9 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 13 obl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Wild Wild ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 Wood Wood PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 waves wave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 14 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 15 … … SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 17 expl _ _ 17 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 20 — - PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 … … SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 for for SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:conj 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 ccomp _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 40 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ 44 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wave** *in a quote* | present | the Wild Wood | | | | now | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | past | a city | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | ago *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **build** *in a quote* | past | people | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **last** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | people | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **last** *in a quote* | would | people's city | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:040-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood.lesson:18`. **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 ×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…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/40-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood/17/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/40-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/40-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood/)