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title: He lies in the hedge by the dusty lane, thinking of the road «and al… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: He lies in the hedge by the dusty lane, thinking of the road «and all the wondrous world that it led to», and of all the wayfarers on it, «out there, beyond — beyond!» Who acts: Africa, world. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 27

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He lies in the hedge by the dusty lane, thinking of the road «and all the wondrous world that it led to», and of all the wayfarers on it, «out there, beyond — beyond!»

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**Who acts:** Africa, world · **What happens:** lie, think, lead · **To what, where:** hedge, wondrous world · **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 (Africa, world), 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:27
# text = He lies in the hedge by the dusty lane, thinking of the road «and all the wondrous world that it led to», and of all the wayfarers on it, «out there, beyond — beyond!»
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nmod
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advcl
24	to	to	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	wayfarers	wayfarer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nmod
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
35	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
36	out	out	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
41	beyond	beyond	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
43	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	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 | **lie** | present | Africa |  |  | the hedge |  | by the dusty lane | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hedge=Location |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Africa *not said here* |  |  | there |  | of the road and all wondrous world and all wayfarers on world; beyond *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lead** *in a quote* | past | world | all wondrous world |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |

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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:27`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5. **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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