--- title: A field-mouse explains they must move «before those horrid machines… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: A field-mouse explains they must move «before those horrid machines begin clicking round the fields» (the harvest machines), and because «the best flats get picked up so quickly nowadays». Who acts: field mouse, mice, horrid machines. 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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 (field mouse, mice, horrid machines), 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:19 # text = A field-mouse explains they must move «before those horrid machines begin clicking round the fields» (the harvest machines), and because «the best flats get picked up so quickly nowadays». # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 10 before before SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 12 horrid horrid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 begin begin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 15 clicking click VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 xcomp _ _ 16 round round ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 appos _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 amod _ _ 31 flats flat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 34 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:advmod 36 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 37 nowadays nowadays ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | a field mouse | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **move** | must | mice *= mouse* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **begin** *in a quote* | present | that horrid machines | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **click** *in a quote* | gerund | that horrid machines *not said here* | | | | | round the fields | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **pick up** *in a quote* | present · passive | | the best flats | | | | nowadays, quickly *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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:19`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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