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title: The third swallow tried «stopping on» one year: «O the weary length… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: The third swallow tried «stopping on» one year: «O the weary length of the nights! Who acts: third swallow. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 13

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The third swallow tried «stopping on» one year: «O the weary length of the nights!

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**Who acts:** third swallow · **What happens:** try, stop on

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South)» 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 (third swallow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.lesson:13
# text = The third swallow tried «stopping on» one year: «O the weary length of the nights!
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
13	O	of	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **try** | past | the third swallow |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stop on** *not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund | the third swallow *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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:057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.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 ×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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