--- title: «I wonder if this sort of car starts easily?» He finds «he had hold… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr.… · tree and pragmatics description: «I wonder if this sort of car starts easily?» He finds «he had hold of the handle and was turning it» (old cars were started by turning a handle at the front). Who acts: sign, sort. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sign, sort), 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:23 # text = «I wonder if this sort of car starts easily?» He finds «he had hold of the handle and was turning it» (old cars were started by turning a handle at the front). # 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): R6-punct-agree ×3 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wonder wonder VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 10 easily easily ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 13 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 18 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 handle handle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 28 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 started start VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 32 by by SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 handle handle NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 40 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | the sign of the Red Lion *= sign* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **start** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | this sort of car | | | | | easily *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **find** | present | sort | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | past | sort | hold of the handle | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Patient | | 5 | **turn** *in a quote* | past · progressive | sort *not said here* | hold | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **start** | past · passive | | old cars | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 7 | **turn** | gerund | | a handle | | the front | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent handle=Theme | | 8 | **sort** *in a quote* | | | car | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **hold** *in a quote* | | | the handle | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:048-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon.lesson:23`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/21/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/)