--- title: They row Portly back, set him down on the tow-path near the ford, an… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: They row Portly back, set him down on the tow-path near the ford, and watch him waddle off until Otter leaps up from the shallows with an amazed and joyous bark. Who acts: marks, Portly, Otter. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marks, Portly, Otter), 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:3 # text = They row Portly back, set him down on the tow-path near the ford, and watch him waddle off until Otter leaps up from the shallows with an amazed and joyous bark. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 row row VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Portly Portly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 set set VERB VB Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 down down ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 tow tow NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 near near ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 ford ford NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 watch watch VERB VB Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 waddle waddle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 off off ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 until until SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 Otter Otter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 leaps leap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 26 up up ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 shallows shallow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 32 amazed amazed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 joyous joyous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 35 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:nmod 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **row back** | present | marks *= mark* | Portly | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portly=Theme | | 2 | **set down** | infinitive | marks *= mark* *not said here* | Portly | | the tow path near the ford | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on path=Destination | | 3 | **watch** | infinitive | marks *= mark* *not said here* | Portly | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **waddle off** | infinitive | Portly *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **leap up** | present | Otter | | | the shallows | | with a amazed bark | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from shallow=Trajectory | 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. **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:3`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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. 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