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title: He tells her about the boathouse, the fish-pond, the walled kitchen-… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: He tells her about the boathouse, the fish-pond, the walled kitchen-garden, the pig-styes, the stables, the dairy, the linen-presses («she liked that bit especially») and the banqueting-hall. Who acts: Toad, smell. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adven
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast), sentence 28

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He tells her about the boathouse, the fish-pond, the walled kitchen-garden, the pig-styes, the stables, the dairy, the linen-presses («she liked that bit especially») and the banqueting-hall.

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**Who acts:** Toad, smell · **What happens:** tell, wall, like · **To what, where:** smell, bit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast)» 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 (Toad, smell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:052-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter.lesson:28
# text = He tells her about the boathouse, the fish-pond, the walled kitchen-garden, the pig-styes, the stables, the dairy, the linen-presses («she liked that bit especially») and the banqueting-hall.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 052-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boathouse	boathouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	walled	wall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	styes	stye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dairy	dairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	presses	press	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
35	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	that	that	DET	DT	PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
41	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	banqueting	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	_
47	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
48	.	.	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Toad |  | smell |  |  | about the boathouse and the fish pond and the walled kitchen garden and the pig styes and the stables and the dairy and the linen presses and the banqueting hall | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about boathouse=Topic |
| 2 | **wall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **like** *in a quote* | past | smell | that bit |  |  |  | especially *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bit=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:052-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter.lesson:28`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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