--- title: That swallow flew off one stormy night; «It was snowing hard as I be… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: That swallow flew off one stormy night; «It was snowing hard as I beat through the passes of the great mountains», and then she felt «the hot sun again on my back» and tasted «my first fat insect!» — «never again did I think of disobedience». Who acts: swallow, It, Rat. 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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 (swallow, It, Rat), 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:17 # text = That swallow flew off one stormy night; «It was snowing hard as I beat through the passes of the great mountains», and then she felt «the hot sun again on my back» and tasted «my first fat insect!» — «never again did I think of disobedience». # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 swallow swallow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 stormy stormy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 snowing snow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 13 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 beat beat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 17 through through ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 passes pass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obl 34 again again ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 tasted taste VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis 41 « « PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 42 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 43 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 45 amod _ _ 44 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 45 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:obl 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 47 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 48 — - PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 49 « « PUNCT `` _ 54 punct _ _ 50 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 51 advmod _ _ 51 again again ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 52 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 53 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 54 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 disobedience disobedience NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ _ 57 » » PUNCT '' _ 54 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 58 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly off** | past | that swallow | | | | night | | tree rules | | 2 | **snow** *in a quote* | past · progressive | It | | | | | hard *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 3 | **beat** *in a quote* | present | the Rat *= rat* | | | the passes of the great mountains | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through pass=Location | | 4 | **feel** | past | swallow | the hot sun | | my back | then | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sun=Theme on back=Location | | 5 | **taste** | past | swallow *not said here* | my first fat insect | | | | | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme insect=Attribute | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past · do-support | the Rat *= rat* | | | | again | of disobedience | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **pass** *in a quote* | | | the great mountains | | | | | nom pass «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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.lesson:17`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/16/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/)