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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to), sentence 27

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Last year's field-mouse play was about «a field-mouse who was captured at sea by a Barbary corsair (a pirate from North Africa), and made to row in a galley; and when he escaped and got home again, his lady-love had gone into a convent».

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**Who acts:** Barbary corsair, play, lady love, Last year · **What happens:** capture, make, row, escape, get, go · **To what, where:** field mouse, sea, galley, convent

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to)» 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 (Barbary corsair, play, lady love, Last year), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:27
# text = Last year's field-mouse play was about «a field-mouse who was captured at sea by a Barbary corsair (a pirate from North Africa), and made to row in a galley; and when he escaped and got home again, his lady-love had gone into a convent».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Barbary	barbary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	corsair	corsair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	row	row	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	galley	galley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
46	home	home	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	again	again	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
50	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	_
52	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
53	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	conj	_	_
55	into	into	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=58:det
57	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=58:compound
58	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=54:punct
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** *in a quote* | past · passive | a Barbary corsair | a field mouse |  | sea |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | past | a Barbary corsair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **row** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a Barbary corsair *not said here* |  |  | a galley |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **escape** *in a quote* | past | play |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **get** *in a quote* | past | play *not said here* |  |  |  | again | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **go** *in a quote* | past · perfect | play's lady love | a convent |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **play** |  | Last year |  |  |  |  |  | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **love** *in a quote* |  | play |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:27`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.

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

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