--- title: From Corsica a ship carried wine to the mainland; at Alassio (a litt… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: From Corsica a ship carried wine to the mainland; at Alassio (a little town on the Italian coast) they «hove» (threw) the wine-casks overboard, «tied one to the other by a long line», and the crew rowed ashore singing, pulling «the long bobbing procession of casks, like a mile of porpoises». 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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 (ship, accounts, crew, casks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:059-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road.lesson:12 # text = From Corsica a ship carried wine to the mainland; at Alassio (a little town on the Italian coast) they «hove» (threw) the wine-casks overboard, «tied one to the other by a long line», and the crew rowed ashore singing, pulling «the long bobbing procession of casks, like a mile of porpoises». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 059-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road.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 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Corsica Corsica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 mainland mainland NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Alassio Alassio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Italian Italian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 hove heave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 27 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:dep 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 casks cask NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 33 overboard overboard ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 « « PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 tied tie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 37 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 obj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 parataxis _ _ 41 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 45 » » PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 crew crew NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 50 rowed row VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 51 ashore ashore ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 52 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 50 advcl _ _ 53 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 54 pulling pull VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 50 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=52:conj 55 « « PUNCT `` _ 59 punct _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 57 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 58 bobbing bob VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 59 amod _ _ 59 procession procession NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obj _ _ 60 of of ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 casks cask NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 nmod _ _ 62 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 63 like like ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 64 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 mile mile NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nmod _ _ 66 of of ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 67 porpoises porpoise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 65 nmod _ _ 68 » » PUNCT '' _ 59 punct _ _ 69 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | past | a ship | wine | | Corsica | | to the mainland; at Alassio | tree rules | | 2 | **heave** *in a quote* | past | accounts *= account* | the wine casks | | | | overboard *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **throw** | past | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **tie** *in a quote* | past | accounts *= account* *not said here* | one | | | | by a long line | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 5 | **row** | past | the crew | | | | | ashore *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the crew *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **pull** | gerund | the crew *not said here* | the long bobbing procession of casks | | | | like a mile of porpoises | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent procession=Theme | | 8 | **bob** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **proceed** *in a quote* | | casks | | | | | like a mile of porpoises | nom procession «event intransitive»: of=agent like=obl | 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. 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