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title: In «a blend of the Squire and the College Don» (a squire is a countr… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: In «a blend of the Squire and the College Don» (a squire is a country landowner, a don a university teacher) he says: «I find I've left my purse behind ... Who acts: squire, washerwoman. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver), sentence 15

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In «a blend of the Squire and the College Don» (a squire is a country landowner, a don a university teacher) he says: «I find I've left my purse behind ...

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**Who acts:** squire, washerwoman · **What happens:** be, say, find, leave, blend · **To what, where:** country landowner, blend, purse, Squire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver)» 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 (squire, washerwoman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.lesson:15
# text = In «a blend of the Squire and the College Don» (a squire is a country landowner, a don a university teacher) he says: «I find I've left my purse behind ...
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	blend	blend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	College	College	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos
12	»	»	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	landowner	landowner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	don	don	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	university	university	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
30	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	ccomp	_	_
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
39	...	...	PUNCT	.	_	28	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 | **is a** | present | a squire | a country landowner |  |  |  | a don  a university teacher *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | washerwoman |  |  | a blend of the Squire and the College Don |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **find** *in a quote* | present | washerwoman |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | present · perfect | washerwoman | my purse |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme |
| 5 | **blend** *in a quote* |  |  | the Squire and the College Don |  |  |  |  | nom blend «event 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:054-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket.lesson:15`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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