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title: King Sigurd's visit really happened, about nine hundred years ago. — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: King Sigurd's visit really happened, about nine hundred years ago. Who acts: visit, King. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople), sentence 17

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King Sigurd's visit really happened, about nine hundred years ago.

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**Who acts:** visit, King · **What happens:** happen, visit

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople)» 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 (visit, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.lesson:17
# text = King Sigurd's visit really happened, about nine hundred years ago.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.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 ×5
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:case
4	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
9	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nummod
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl:unmarked
12	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **happen** | past | King's visit |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **visit** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act 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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**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:058-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat.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 ×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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