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title: He orders «the best luncheon that could be provided at so short a no… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics
description: He orders «the best luncheon that could be provided at so short a notice» and eats in the coffee-room. Who acts: sign. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» of the books course of Mova's prima
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon), sentence 19

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He orders «the best luncheon that could be provided at so short a notice» and eats in the coffee-room.

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**Who acts:** sign · **What happens:** order, provide, eat · **To what, where:** best luncheon, short notice, coffee room

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» 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 (sign), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:19
# text = He orders «the best luncheon that could be provided at so short a notice» and eats in the coffee-room.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.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
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	orders	order	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	luncheon	luncheon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **order** | present | sign | the best luncheon |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luncheon=Theme |
| 2 | **provide** *in a quote* | could · passive |  | the best luncheon |  | a short notice |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | present | sign *not said here* |  |  | the coffee room |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:19`.

**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. **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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