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title: «I will linger, and look back; and at last I will surely see you com… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: «I will linger, and look back; and at last I will surely see you coming, eager and light-hearted, with all the South in your face!» Who acts: tactful Mole, you. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure)» of the books cours
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 14

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«I will linger, and look back; and at last I will surely see you coming, eager and light-hearted, with all the South in your face!»

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**Who acts:** tactful Mole, you · **What happens:** linger, look back, see, come · **To what, where:** last

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure)» 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 (tactful Mole, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.lesson:14
# text = «I will linger, and look back; and at last I will surely see you coming, eager and light-hearted, with all the South in your face!»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	linger	linger	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
24	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	nsubj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	advcl	_	_
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=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 | **linger** *in a quote* | future | the tactful Mole *= mole* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look back** *in a quote* | infinitive | the tactful Mole *= mole* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | future | the tactful Mole *= mole* |  |  | last |  | surely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund | you |  |  |  |  | eager *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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