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title: Then the moon rises and the meadows, gardens and river appear again… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the moon rises and the meadows, gardens and river appear again in silver, like old friends in new clothes; the two search hedges, hollow trees and ditches until the moon sinks and the mystery comes back. Who acts: moon, meadows, mystery. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapte
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 1: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Portly is missing), sentence 4

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Then the moon rises and the meadows, gardens and river appear again in silver, like old friends in new clothes; the two search hedges, hollow trees and ditches until the moon sinks and the mystery comes back.

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**Who acts:** moon, meadows, mystery · **What happens:** rise, appear, sink, come back · **To what, where:** silver

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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 (moon, meadows, mystery), 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:4
# text = Then the moon rises and the meadows, gardens and river appear again in silver, like old friends in new clothes; the two search hedges, hollow trees and ditches until the moon sinks and the mystery comes back.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	19	nmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	ditches	ditch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
33	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	sinks	sink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
41	back	back	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12: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 | **rise** | present | the moon |  |  |  | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **appear** | present | the meadows and gardens and river |  |  | silver | again | like old friends in new clothes and the two search hedges and hollow trees and ditches | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in silver=Location |
| 3 | **sink** | present | the moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **come back** | present | the mystery |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:049-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing.lesson:4`.

**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 ×1, 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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