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title: This is the book's mystical scene: the author tells of a holy, wonde… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: This is the book's mystical scene: the author tells of a holy, wonderful meeting, as a story, without ever naming the Piper. Who acts: This, author. 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 
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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 9

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This is the book's mystical scene: the author tells of a holy, wonderful meeting, as a story, without ever naming the Piper.

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**Who acts:** This, author · **What happens:** be, tell, name · **To what, where:** mystical scene, Piper · **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 (This, author), 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:9
# text = This is the book's mystical scene: the author tells of a holy, wonderful meeting, as a story, without ever naming the Piper.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	mystical	mystical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det
10	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound
11	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	25	advmod	_	_
25	naming	name	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:acl
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Piper	piper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **is a** | present | This | the book's mystical scene |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the author |  |  |  |  | of a holy wonderful meeting | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **name** | gerund | the author *not said here* | the Piper |  |  | ever |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piper=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:050-willows-ch7-part2-the-piper.lesson:9`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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