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title: The two friends, «so far from home themselves, had something of wist… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The two friends, «so far from home themselves, had something of wistfulness in their eyes» (wistful = sad and longing). Who acts: two friends. 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 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 18

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The two friends, «so far from home themselves, had something of wistfulness in their eyes» (wistful = sad and longing).

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**Who acts:** two friends · **What happens:** have, long · **To what, where:** something, eyes

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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 (two friends), 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:18
# text = The two friends, «so far from home themselves, had something of wistfulness in their eyes» (wistful = sad and longing).
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	nsubj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	wistfulness	wistfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
21	wistful	wistful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
22	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	23	dep	_	_
23	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	longing	long	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **have** *in a quote* | past | the two friends | something |  | people's eyes |  | far *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 2 | **long** | gerund | the two friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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 ×1, R6-punct-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.

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