--- title: The voice fades, the stranger becomes a speck on the road, and the R… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Way… · tree and pragmatics description: The voice fades, the stranger becomes a speck on the road, and the Rat, like a sleep-walker, packs a satchel, takes a stick and steps out of his door — just as the Mole arrives. Who acts: voice, stranger, Rat, Mole. 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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 (voice, stranger, Rat, Mole), 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:2 # text = The voice fades, the stranger becomes a speck on the road, and the Rat, like a sleep-walker, packs a satchel, takes a stick and steps out of his door — just as the Mole arrives. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 fades fade VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 speck speck NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 walker walker NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 packs pack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 satchel satchel NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 steps step VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 33 out out ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 — - PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 just just ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 39 as as SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 arrives arrive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advcl 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fade** | present | the voice | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **become** | present | the stranger | a speck on the road | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **pack** | present | the Rat | a satchel | | | | like a sleep walker | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent satchel=Theme | | 4 | **take** | present | the Rat *not said here* | a stick | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | | 5 | **step out** | present | the Rat *not said here* | Rat's door | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location door=Theme | | 6 | **arrive** | present | the Mole | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.lesson:2`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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. 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