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title: Now «the air was full of the carol of birds that hailed the dawn»: t… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now «the air was full of the carol of birds that hailed the dawn»: the birds sing again (hailed = greeted). Who acts: air, carol, birds. 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 p
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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 6

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Now «the air was full of the carol of birds that hailed the dawn»: the birds sing again (hailed = greeted).

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**Who acts:** air, carol, birds · **What happens:** be, hail, sing, greet, carol · **To what, where:** birds · **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 (air, carol, birds), 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:6
# text = Now «the air was full of the carol of birds that hailed the dawn»: the birds sing again (hailed = greeted).
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	carol	carol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hailed	hail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
23	hailed	hail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
24	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	25	punct	_	_
25	greeted	greet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	parataxis	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the air |  |  |  | now | of the carol of birds; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hail** *in a quote* | past | the carol of birds |  |  |  | dawn |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the birds |  |  |  | again |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 4 | **hail** | participle | the air *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 5 | **greet** *speech: greet* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **carol** *in a quote* |  |  | birds |  |  |  |  | nom carol «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:6`.

**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. **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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