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title: «The call of lush meadow-grass, wet orchards, warm, insect-haunted p… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: «The call of lush meadow-grass, wet orchards, warm, insect-haunted ponds ... the House of the perfect Eaves» (eaves = the edge of a roof, where swallows nest), «the cuckoo's note», and «quiet water-lilies swaying on the surface of an English stream». Who acts: swallows, quiet water lilies, cuckoo. A
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 21

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«The call of lush meadow-grass, wet orchards, warm, insect-haunted ponds ... the House of the perfect Eaves» (eaves = the edge of a roof, where swallows nest), «the cuckoo's note», and «quiet water-lilies swaying on the surface of an English stream».

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**Who acts:** swallows, quiet water lilies, cuckoo · **What happens:** haunt, nest, sway, call, note · **To what, where:** surface, lush meadow grass · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (swallows, quiet water lilies, cuckoo), 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:21
# text = «The call of lush meadow-grass, wet orchards, warm, insect-haunted ponds ... the House of the perfect Eaves» (eaves = the edge of a roof, where swallows nest), «the cuckoo's note», and «quiet water-lilies swaying on the surface of an English stream».
# 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	lush	lush	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	orchards	orchard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	haunted	haunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
19	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	House	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Eaves	eave	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
28	eaves	eave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	38	advmod	_	_
37	swallows	swallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	nest	nest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	's	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
46	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	45	punct	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
49	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	53	punct	_	_
50	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
51	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	51	punct	_	_
53	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	_
54	swaying	sway	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	53	acl	_	_
55	on	on	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
62	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	57	punct	_	_
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **haunt** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **nest** | present | swallows |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sway** *in a quote* | gerund | quiet water lilies *not said here* |  |  | the surface of a English stream |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Location |
| 4 | **call** *in a quote* |  |  | lush meadow grass and wet orchards and warm haunted ponds |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **note** *in a quote* |  | the cuckoo |  |  |  |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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