--- title: Behind one drawn blind they see the shadow of a bird-cage and a litt… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics description: Behind one drawn blind they see the shadow of a bird-cage and a little bird who wakes, yawns and tucks his head back in. Who acts: Rat, little bird. 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 Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/41-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home/3/) [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 V, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/41-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home/) / 3 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home), sentence 3 Behind one drawn blind they see the shadow of a bird-cage and a little bird who wakes, yawns and tucks his head back in. **Who acts:** Rat, little bird · **What happens:** draw, see, wake, yawn, tuck, shadow · **To what, where:** one, shadow, head, bird cage 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 (Rat, little bird), 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:3 # text = Behind one drawn blind they see the shadow of a bird-cage and a little bird who wakes, yawns and tucks his head back in. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Behind behind ADP IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 4 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 wakes wake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 yawns yawn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 23 tucks tuck VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod 27 in in ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | participle · passive | | one | | | | blind *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **see** | present | Rat | the shadow of a bird cage and a little bird | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus | | 3 | **wake** | present | a little bird | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **yawn** | present | a little bird *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tuck** | present | a little bird *not said here* | bird's head | | | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 6 | **shadow** | | | a bird cage and a little bird | | | | | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient | 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:041-willows-ch5-part1-the-call-of-home.lesson:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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