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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople), sentence 6

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So the Sea Rat tells of his last trip: family troubles, then the Greek islands, warm nights under the stars, up the Adriatic and into Venice «down a path of gold», with music on the Grand Canal and gondolas packed side by side.

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**Who acts:** Sea Rat, gondolas, Rat · **What happens:** tell, pack, trip · **To what, where:** side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Sea Rat, gondolas, Rat), 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:6
# text = So the Sea Rat tells of his last trip: family troubles, then the Greek islands, warm nights under the stars, up the Adriatic and into Venice «down a path of gold», with music on the Grand Canal and gondolas packed side by side.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
3	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound
5	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
21	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Adriatic	Adriatic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
32	down	down	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	Grand	Grand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	flat	_	_
44	Canal	Canal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	gondolas	gondola	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
47	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=48:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
48	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:conj
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Sea Rat |  |  |  |  | of Rat's last trip | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pack** | participle | gondolas by side *not said here* | side |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **trip** |  | Rat |  |  |  |  |  | nom trip «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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**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

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