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title: He is running about lighting lamps and candles: «What a capital litt… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: He is running about lighting lamps and candles: «What a capital little house this is! Who acts: Rat. 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 with its dependenc
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside), sentence 3

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He is running about lighting lamps and candles: «What a capital little house this is!

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**Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** run about, light, be · **To what, where:** lamps, capital little house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Rat), 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:3
# text = He is running about lighting lamps and candles: «What a capital little house this is!
# 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): no change
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	lighting	light	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	_
6	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
11	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	15	det	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	capital	capital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **run about** | present · progressive | Rat |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **light** | gerund | Rat *not said here* | lamps and candles |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | what capital little house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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