--- title: He wanders into «the great sea of wheat», a «forest of stiff strong… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: He wanders into «the great sea of wheat», a «forest of stiff strong stalks that carried their own golden sky away over his head». Who acts: Rat, stiff strong stalks. 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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 (Rat, stiff strong stalks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson:13 # text = He wanders into «the great sea of wheat», a «forest of stiff strong stalks that carried their own golden sky away over his head». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.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 ×3 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wanders wander VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 « « ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 wheat wheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound 10 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 « « ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 stalks stalk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 22 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 26 over over ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod:poss 28 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:compound 29 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 . . 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 | **wander** | present | Rat | | | the great sea wheat of » | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Destination | | 2 | **carry** *in a quote* | past | stiff strong stalks | stalks's own golden sky | | | | Rat's head *obl*; away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:056-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air.lesson:13`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air/12/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air/)