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title: He chooses these «remembering the stranger's origin and preferences»… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: He chooses these «remembering the stranger's origin and preferences», and «blushed for pleasure at the old seaman's commendations» (praise). Who acts: garlic, old seaman. 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 b
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road), sentence 18

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He chooses these «remembering the stranger's origin and preferences», and «blushed for pleasure at the old seaman's commendations» (praise).

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**Who acts:** garlic, old seaman · **What happens:** choose, remember, blush, commend · **To what, where:** origin, commendations

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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 (garlic, old seaman), 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:18
# text = He chooses these «remembering the stranger's origin and preferences», and «blushed for pleasure at the old seaman's commendations» (praise).
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chooses	choose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	preferences	preference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	blushed	blush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	seaman	seaman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	commendations	commendation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
27	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **choose** | present | garlic |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remember** *in a quote* | gerund |  | the stranger's origin and preferences |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent origin=Theme |
| 3 | **blush** *in a quote* | past | garlic *not said here* |  |  | the old seaman's commendations and praise |  | for pleasure | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **commend** *in a quote* |  | the old seaman |  |  |  |  |  | nom commendation «communication 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:059-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road.lesson:18`.

**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): R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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