--- title: From a stile they look back at the wood, «dense, menacing, compact»,… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: From a stile they look back at the wood, «dense, menacing, compact», and hurry home to the river «that never made them afraid with any amazement». Who acts: paths, river. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/40-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood/34/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/40-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood/) / 34 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home), sentence 34 From a stile they look back at the wood, «dense, menacing, compact», and hurry home to the river «that never made them afraid with any amazement». **Who acts:** paths, river · **What happens:** look back, hurry, not make · **To what, where:** river, paths 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 (paths, river), 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:34 # text = From a stile they look back at the wood, «dense, menacing, compact», and hurry home to the river «that never made them afraid with any amazement». # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 From from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 stile stile NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 dense dense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 menacing menace ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 compact compact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 hurry hurry VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 21 home home ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 33 det _ _ 33 amazement amazement NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look back** | present | paths *= path* | | | | | at the wood; from a stile | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from stile=Theme | | 2 | **hurry** | infinitive | paths *= path* *not said here* | | | the river | | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to river=Destination | | 3 | **not** **make** *in a quote* | past | the river | paths *= path* | | | | with any amazement; afraid *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | 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:34`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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. 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