--- title: He waits till «sniffs were frequent and sobs only intermittent» (int… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics description: He waits till «sniffs were frequent and sobs only intermittent» (intermittent = coming now and then), then says «carelessly» that they'd better be getting on, and sets off the way they came. Who acts: pig, sniffs, sobs. 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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 (pig, sniffs, sobs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.lesson:23 # text = He waits till «sniffs were frequent and sobs only intermittent» (intermittent = coming now and then), then says «carelessly» that they'd better be getting on, and sets off the way they came. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 till till SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 5 sniffs sniff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 frequent frequent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 sobs sob NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 only only ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 intermittent intermittent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 14 intermittent intermittent NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 15 = = SYM SYM _ 14 dep _ _ 16 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 parataxis _ _ 17 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 23 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 25 carelessly carelessly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 29 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 32 advmod _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux _ _ 32 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 ccomp _ _ 33 on on ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 sets set VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 37 off off ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:obl 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | present | pig | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | sniffs | | | | | frequent *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** *in a quote* | | sobs | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | gerund | | | | | now | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | pig *not said here* | | | | then | carelessly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **get on** | would · progressive | sniffs *= sniff* | | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **set off** | present | pig *not said here* | the way | | | | | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition way=Patient | | 8 | **come** | past | sniffs *= sniff* | the way *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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:042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.lesson:23`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, pa…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/42-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end/22/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, pa…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/42-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/42-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end/)