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title: Old words: «selvedge» = edge; «torrid» = burning hot; «keeping it up… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Old words: «selvedge» = edge; «torrid» = burning hot; «keeping it up late» = staying up late having fun; «quest» = a search. Who acts: Old words. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing)» of the books course of Mova's 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 21

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Old words: «selvedge» = edge; «torrid» = burning hot; «keeping it up late» = staying up late having fun; «quest» = a search.

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**Who acts:** Old words · **What happens:** selvedge, burn, keep up, stay up, have · **To what, where:** edge, fun

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing)» 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 (Old words), 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:21
# text = Old words: «selvedge» = edge; «torrid» = burning hot; «keeping it up late» = staying up late having fun; «quest» = a search.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	selvedge	selvedge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
11	torrid	torrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	»	»	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
13	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
18	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
23	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod
27	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
28	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
33	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **selvedge** *in a quote* | infinitive | Old words and torrid » *not said here* | edge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **keep up** *in a quote* | gerund |  | edge |  |  |  | late *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **stay up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | gerund |  | fun |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient |

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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:049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.lesson:21`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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