--- title: They search «the hedges, the hollow trees, the runnels and their lit… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: They search «the hedges, the hollow trees, the runnels and their little culverts»: runnels are tiny streams, culverts are little tunnels carrying water under a path. Who acts: shadows, runnels, culverts, little tunnels. 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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 (shadows, runnels, culverts, little tunnels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.lesson:20 # text = They search «the hedges, the hollow trees, the runnels and their little culverts»: runnels are tiny streams, culverts are little tunnels carrying water under a path. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 search search VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 hedges hedge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 runnels runnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 culverts culvert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 18 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 runnels runnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 streams stream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 24 culverts culvert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 28 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 under under ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **search** | present | shadows *= shadow* | the hedges and the hollow trees and the runnels and shadows's little culverts and tiny streams and little tunnels | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hedge=Location | | 2 | **is a** | present | runnels | tiny streams | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | culverts | little tunnels | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **carry** | gerund | little tunnels *not said here* | water | | a path | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | 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. 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