--- title: The field-mouse asked to recite «giggled shyly … and remained absolu… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics description: The field-mouse asked to recite «giggled shyly … and remained absolutely tongue-tied» — «nothing could overcome his stage-fright». Who acts: field mouse, nothing, play. 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 ba --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/44-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming/28/) [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/44-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming/) / 28 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulce Domum (the carol, a magic supper, and a home to come back to), sentence 28 The field-mouse asked to recite «giggled shyly … and remained absolutely tongue-tied» — «nothing could overcome his stage-fright». **Who acts:** field mouse, nothing, play · **What happens:** ask, recite, giggle, remain, tie, overcome · **To what, where:** stage fright · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (field mouse, nothing, play), 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:28 # text = The field-mouse asked to recite «giggled shyly … and remained absolutely tongue-tied» — «nothing could overcome his stage-fright». # 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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 recite recite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 giggled giggle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 10 shyly shyly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 … … PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 absolutely absolutely ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 15 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 19 — - PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 23 nsubj _ _ 22 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 overcome overcome VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 25 stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the field mouse | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **recite** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the field mouse *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **giggle** *in a quote* | past | the field mouse *not said here* | | | | | shyly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **remain** *in a quote* | past | the field mouse *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **tie** *in a quote* | participle | the field mouse *not said here* | | | | | absolutely *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **overcome** *in a quote* | could | nothing | play's stage fright | | | | | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fright=Theme | | 7 | **fright** *in a quote* | | play | | | | | | nom fright «feeling 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:044-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming.lesson:28`. **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. **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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