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title: «The animals did not hold with villages» (did not like or approve of… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: «The animals did not hold with villages» (did not like or approve of them). Who acts: animals. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 13

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«The animals did not hold with villages» (did not like or approve of them).

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**Who acts:** animals · **What happens:** not hold, not like, approve · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of 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 (animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:041-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home.lesson:13
# text = «The animals did not hold with villages» (did not like or approve of them).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 041-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home.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): no change
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	like	like	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	approve	approve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hold** *in a quote* | past · do-support | the animals |  |  |  |  | with villages | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **like** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **approve** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of animals *= animal* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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): no change. **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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