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title: Just then the shopper is back, staggering under a full basket, and s… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 4: Dulc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Just then the shopper is back, staggering under a full basket, and soon the table is covered with good things. Who acts: shopper. 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 p
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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 9

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Just then the shopper is back, staggering under a full basket, and soon the table is covered with good things.

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**Who acts:** shopper · **What happens:** be back, stagger, cover · **To what, where:** full basket, table

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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 (shopper), 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:9
# text = Just then the shopper is back, staggering under a full basket, and soon the table is covered with good things.
# 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): no change
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shopper	shopper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	staggering	stagger	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **be back** | present | the shopper |  |  |  | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stagger** | gerund | the shopper *not said here* |  |  | a full basket |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under basket=Trajectory |
| 3 | **cover** | present · passive |  | the table |  |  |  | with good things; soon *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with thing=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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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