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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the music and the island), sentence 1

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The Mole hears only the wind in the reeds, but he rows on where the Rat nods, up a backwater towards the great weir; at last the music reaches him too, and he sees tears on his friend's cheeks.

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**Who acts:** Mole, Rat, music · **What happens:** hear, row on, nod, reach, see · **To what, where:** wind, reeds, Mole, tears, cheeks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the music and the island)» 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 (Mole, Rat, music), 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:1
# text = The Mole hears only the wind in the reeds, but he rows on where the Rat nods, up a backwater towards the great weir; at last the music reaches him too, and he sees tears on his friend's cheeks.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rows	row	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
17	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	nods	nod	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	backwater	backwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos
23	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	weir	weir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	last	last	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	32	obl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	too	too	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
39	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	's	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | the Mole | the wind |  | the reeds |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wind=Stimulus |
| 2 | **row on** | present | Mole |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **nod** | present | the Rat |  |  |  |  | up a backwater towards the great weir | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reach** | present | the music | Mole |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at last=Asset |
| 5 | **see** | present | music | tears |  | music's friend's cheeks |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tear=Stimulus |

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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:050-willows-ch7-part2-the-piper.lesson:1`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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