--- title: It's the field-mice, out carol-singing, as they do every year — and… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics description: It's the field-mice, out carol-singing, as they do every year — and they always come to Mole End last. Who acts: lantern, field mice, feet, out. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside)» of the books course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/43-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers/14/) [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/43-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers/) / 14 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 14 It's the field-mice, out carol-singing, as they do every year — and they always come to Mole End last. **Who acts:** lantern, field mice, feet, out · **What happens:** be, sing, do, come, carol · **To what, where:** field mice, Mole End This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside)» 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 (lantern, field mice, feet, out), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.lesson:14 # text = It's the field-mice, out carol-singing, as they do every year — and they always come to Mole End last. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 out our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Typo=Yes 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 carol carol NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 11 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 acl:relcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 16 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 — - PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 22 advmod _ _ 22 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 End end NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 last last ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | lantern | the field mice and out's carol | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the field mice and out's carol *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **do** | present | feet *= foot* | | | | year | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come** | present | feet *= foot* | | | | to Mole End | always, last *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **carol** | | out | | | | | | nom carol «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:043-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers.lesson:14`. **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): R8-pos-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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