--- title: He sees «red and green lights» and hears «the puffing and snorting o… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: T… · tree and pragmatics description: He sees «red and green lights» and hears «the puffing and snorting of engines and the banging of shunted trucks» (shunted = pushed from one track to another): a railway station. Who acts: washerwoman. 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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 (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:8 # text = He sees «red and green lights» and hears «the puffing and snorting of engines and the banging of shunted trucks» (shunted = pushed from one track to another): a railway station. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 4 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 puffing puffing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 snorting snorting NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 engines engine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 banging banging NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 shunted shunt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 23 trucks truck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 26 shunted shunt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 27 = = PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 track track NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 another another PRON DT PronType=Ind 28 obl _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 35 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 railway railway NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present | washerwoman | red lights | | | | a railway station *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | | 2 | **hear** | present | washerwoman *not said here* | the puffing of engines and snorting and the banging of shunted trucks | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer puffing=Stimulus | | 3 | **shunt** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **shunt** | participle | | | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **push** | participle | | | | one track | | to another | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from track=Initial\_Location to another=Destination | | 6 | **puff** *in a quote* | | | engines | | | | | nom puffing «act transitive»: of=patient | 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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