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title: Then they chatter of «violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted w… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they chatter of «violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls» (tawny = golden brown). Who acts: lilies. 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 dep
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 24

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Then they chatter of «violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls» (tawny = golden brown).

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**Who acts:** lilies · **What happens:** chatter, haunt

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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 (lilies), 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:24
# text = Then they chatter of «violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls» (tawny = golden brown).
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chatter	chatter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	violet	violet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	tawny	tawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sands	sand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	lizard	lizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	haunted	haunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
19	tawny	tawny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
20	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	22	punct	_	_
21	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chatter** | present | lilies *= lily* |  |  |  | then | of violet seas and tawny sands | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **haunt** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:24`.

**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, R7-rel-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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