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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 (smell, Toad), 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:3 # text = Later she brings tea and thick, hot buttered toast; Toad sits up, eats, and soon starts boasting about himself, his house and how important he is. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 6 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 buttered butter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 toast toast NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 20 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 boasting boast VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 xcomp _ _ 22 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obj 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 29 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **bring** | present | smell | tea and thick hot buttered toast | | | | late *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tea=Theme | | 2 | **butter** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sit up** | present | Toad | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **eat** | present | Toad *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **start** | present | smell *not said here* | | | | | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **boast** *speech: other* | gerund | smell *not said here* | | | | | about Toad | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about himself=Topic | | 7 | **is** | present | Toad | | | | | important *property* | tree rules | 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. 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