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title: Portly wakes with a squeak of joy, then searches the island for the… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Portly wakes with a squeak of joy, then searches the island for the one who watched over him and cries when he cannot find him; the Rat stares at deep hoof-marks: «Some — great — animal — has been here». Who acts: Portly, one, Rat, great animal. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, cha
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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 2

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Portly wakes with a squeak of joy, then searches the island for the one who watched over him and cries when he cannot find him; the Rat stares at deep hoof-marks: «Some — great — animal — has been here».

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**Who acts:** Portly, one, Rat, great animal, joy · **What happens:** wake, search, watch, cry, not find, stare · **To what, where:** island, Vision, deep hoof marks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Portly, one, Rat, great animal), 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:2
# text = Portly wakes with a squeak of joy, then searches the island for the one who watched over him and cries when he cannot find him; the Rat stares at deep hoof-marks: «Some — great — animal — has been here».
# 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): R5-strong ×4, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Portly	portly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wakes	wake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	squeak	squeak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	searches	search	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
31	stares	stare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:amod
34	hoof	hoof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
36	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
39	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	43	det	_	_
40	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
41	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
43	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
44	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
45	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	cop	_	_
47	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	parataxis	_	_
48	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | present | Portly |  |  |  |  | with a squeak of joy | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with squeak=Instrument |
| 2 | **search** | present | Portly *not said here* | the island |  |  | then | for the one | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent island=Location for one=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | past | the one |  |  |  |  | over Portly | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | the one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **find** | can | Portly | Vision |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 6 | **stare** | present | the Rat | deep hoof marks |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | some great animal |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **squeak** |  | joy |  |  |  |  |  | nom squeak «event intransitive»: of=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:051-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness.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 ×4, R8-pos-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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