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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 (dawn, breeze, Rat, call), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:050-willows-ch7-part2-the-piper.lesson:0 # text = As dawn creeps closer, a breeze stirs the reeds and the Rat suddenly hears far-off piping, music so beautiful that it almost hurts, with a call in it that is «stronger even than the music is sweet». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 050-willows-ch7-part2-the-piper.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 creeps creep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 closer close ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 breeze breeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 stirs stir VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 reeds reed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 16 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 off off NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 piping piping NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 almost almost ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:ccomp 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nmod _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=43:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 36 « « PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=43:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 37 stronger strong ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 43 advmod _ _ 38 even even ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 39 than than SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 acl:relcl _ _ 44 » » PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **creep** | present | dawn | | | | | close *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stir** | present | a breeze | the reeds | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus reed=Experiencer | | 3 | **hear** | present | the Rat | off piping | | | | suddenly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer piping=Stimulus | | 4 | **hurt** | present | Rat | | | | | almost *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a call in breeze | | | | | strong, sweet *property* | tree rules | 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:050-willows-ch7-part2-the-piper.lesson:0`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII,…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/49-willows-ch7-part1-portly-is-missing/21/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII,…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/50-willows-ch7-part2-the-piper/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/50-willows-ch7-part2-the-piper/)