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title: In old Greek stories this figure is Pan, the god of wild places, she… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: In old Greek stories this figure is Pan, the god of wild places, shepherds and flocks; the book never says his name and tells the scene quietly, as something holy and mysterious. Who acts: figure, book. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at the Gates of
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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 8

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In old Greek stories this figure is Pan, the god of wild places, shepherds and flocks; the book never says his name and tells the scene quietly, as something holy and mysterious.

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**Who acts:** figure, book · **What happens:** be, not say, tell, name · **To what, where:** Pan, old Greek stories, name, scene · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (figure, book), 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:8
# text = In old Greek stories this figure is Pan, the god of wild places, shepherds and flocks; the book never says his name and tells the scene quietly, as something holy and mysterious.
# 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	Pan	Pan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:advmod
33	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	obl	_	_
34	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this figure | Pan |  | old Greek stories |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present | the book | book's name |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the book *not said here* | the scene |  |  |  | as something; quietly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scene=Recipient |
| 4 | **name** |  | book |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:8`.

**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. **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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