--- title: He reads the countryside with his nose and ears: «That was clover»;… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: He reads the countryside with his nose and ears: «That was clover»; cows «cropping the grass»; «distant reapers»; cottage smoke; and «the call of a moorhen» tells him the river is near. Who acts: Rat, That, cows, river. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rat, That, cows, river), 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:9 # text = He reads the countryside with his nose and ears: «That was clover»; cows «cropping the grass»; «distant reapers»; cottage smoke; and «the call of a moorhen» tells him the river is near. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 countryside countryside NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 12 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 clover clover NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 parataxis _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 cropping crop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 25 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 reapers reaper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 appos _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 33 « « PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 moorhen moorhen NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 40 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 near near ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | present | Rat | the countryside | | | | with Rat's nose and ears | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | That | clover | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **crop** *in a quote* | gerund | cows *not said here* | the grass and cottage smoke | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Rat *not said here* | the call of a moorhen | Rat | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | present | the river | | | | | near *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **call** *in a quote* | | | a moorhen | | | | | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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:9`. **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 ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat/7/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat/)