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title: No birds sing, everything is strangely still, and the roses and mead… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: No birds sing, everything is strangely still, and the roses and meadow-sweet look brighter than ever before. Who acts: birds, everything, roses. 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 M
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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 2

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No birds sing, everything is strangely still, and the roses and meadow-sweet look brighter than ever before.

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**Who acts:** birds, everything, roses · **What happens:** sing, be, look

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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 (birds, everything, roses), 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:2
# text = No birds sing, everything is strangely still, and the roses and meadow-sweet look brighter than ever before.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	strangely	strangely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	still	still	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod
17	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	_
19	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
21	before	before	ADV	RB	_	18	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | no birds |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | everything |  |  |  |  | still, strangely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | present | the roses and meadow |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:2`.

**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. **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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