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title: Voices outside: «Now, all in a line—hold the lantern up a bit, Tommy… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Voices outside: «Now, all in a line—hold the lantern up a bit, Tommy—clear your throats first—no coughing after I say one, two, three.—Where's young Bill?» Who acts: line, I. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices
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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 30

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Voices outside: «Now, all in a line—hold the lantern up a bit, Tommy—clear your throats first—no coughing after I say one, two, three.—Where's young Bill?»

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**Who acts:** line, I · **What happens:** hold up, clear, cough, say, be · **To what, where:** lantern, throats, one, young Bill · **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 (line, I), 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:30
# text = Voices outside: «Now, all in a line—hold the lantern up a bit, Tommy—clear your throats first—no coughing after I say one, two, three.—Where's young Bill?»
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
5	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
11	—	—	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	_
20	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	throats	throat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	advmod	_	_
25	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	coughing	cough	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
28	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
37	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	41	advmod	_	_
39	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	ccomp	_	_
42	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
43	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold up** *in a quote* | infinitive | a line *not said here* | the lantern |  |  |  | a bit *obl:unmarked*; Tommy *vocative* | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lantern=Theme |
| 2 | **clear** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your throats |  |  |  | first *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent throat=Source |
| 3 | **cough** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | I | one |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | young Bill |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:30`.

**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): 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/).

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