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title: Next he took «a ship that was trading to Sardinia and Corsica», glad… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next he took «a ship that was trading to Sardinia and Corsica», glad «to feel the fresh breeze and the sea-spray in my face once more». Who acts: Rat, ship. 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
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road), sentence 7

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Next he took «a ship that was trading to Sardinia and Corsica», glad «to feel the fresh breeze and the sea-spray in my face once more».

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**Who acts:** Rat, ship · **What happens:** take, trade, feel · **To what, where:** ship, Sardinia, fresh breeze, face

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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 (Rat, ship), 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:7
# text = Next he took «a ship that was trading to Sardinia and Corsica», glad «to feel the fresh breeze and the sea-spray in my face once more».
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Next	next	ADV	RB	_	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	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	trading	trade	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Sardinia	Sardinia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Corsica	Corsica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
31	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	32	advmod	_	_
32	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
34	.	.	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 | Rat | a ship |  |  |  | next *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme |
| 2 | **trade** *in a quote* | past · progressive | a ship |  | Sardinia and Corsica |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **feel** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Rat *not said here* | the fresh breeze and the sea spray |  | my face |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent breeze=Theme in face=Location |

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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:7`.

**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): 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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