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description: The sun's golden disc rises over the horizon and dazzles the two friends; when they can see again, the Vision has gone, and the air is full of birds singing in the dawn. Who acts: golden disc, friends, Vision, air. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness), sentence 0

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The sun's golden disc rises over the horizon and dazzles the two friends; when they can see again, the Vision has gone, and the air is full of birds singing in the dawn.

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**Who acts:** golden disc, friends, Vision, air, birds · **What happens:** rise, dazzle, see, go, be, sing · **To what, where:** horizon, two friends

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness)» 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 (golden disc, friends, Vision, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:051-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness.lesson:0
# text = The sun's golden disc rises over the horizon and dazzles the two friends; when they can see again, the Vision has gone, and the air is full of birds singing in the dawn.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 051-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	disc	disc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	dazzles	dazzle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
34	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **rise** | present | the sun's golden disc |  |  | the horizon |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over horizon=Location |
| 2 | **dazzle** | present | the sun's golden disc *not said here* | the two friends |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer |
| 3 | **see** | can | friends *= friend* |  |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **go** | present · perfect | the Vision |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | the air |  |  |  |  | of birds; full *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | birds *not said here* |  |  |  | dawn |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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**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): no change. **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.

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