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title: Then he took «to the great olive-woods for a spell and a rest», «str… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he took «to the great olive-woods for a spell and a rest», «stretched high on the hillside with the blue Mediterranean far below me». Who acts: crew. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road)» of the books course of M
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road), sentence 14

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Then he took «to the great olive-woods for a spell and a rest», «stretched high on the hillside with the blue Mediterranean far below me».

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**Who acts:** crew · **What happens:** take, stretch · **To what, where:** hillside

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road)» 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 (crew), 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:14
# text = Then he took «to the great olive-woods for a spell and a rest», «stretched high on the hillside with the blue Mediterranean far below me».
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	olive	olive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
21	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod
29	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
30	below	below	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **take** | past | crew |  |  |  | then | to the great olive woods *result*; for a spell and a rest | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to wood=Result |
| 2 | **stretch** *in a quote* | participle | crew *not said here* |  |  | the hillside |  | with the blue Mediterranean; below the crew *= crew*; high *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with mediterranean=Instrument |

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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:059-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road.lesson:14`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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