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title: Next evening the aunt comes; «certain gold sovereigns» (gold coins w… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next evening the aunt comes; «certain gold sovereigns» (gold coins worth a pound each), placed where she can see them, «practically completed the matter». Who acts: aunt. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress)» of the book
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress), sentence 17

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Next evening the aunt comes; «certain gold sovereigns» (gold coins worth a pound each), placed where she can see them, «practically completed the matter».

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**Who acts:** aunt · **What happens:** come, place, see, complete · **To what, where:** certain gold sovereigns, coins, matter

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress)» 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 (aunt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.lesson:17
# text = Next evening the aunt comes; «certain gold sovereigns» (gold coins worth a pound each), placed where she can see them, «practically completed the matter».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
10	sovereigns	sovereign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
14	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj
15	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	each	each	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
29	practically	practically	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	completed	complete	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the aunt | certain gold sovereigns |  |  | evening |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | participle |  | certain gold sovereigns *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | can | aunt | coins *= coin* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **complete** *in a quote* | past | the aunt *not said here* | the matter |  |  |  | practically *property* | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Eventuality |

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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:053-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman.lesson:17`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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