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title: The Rat heard of «deep-sea fishings», «the tall bows of the great li… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rat heard of «deep-sea fishings», «the tall bows of the great liner taking shape overhead through the fog», and «the merry home-coming» to «red-curtained windows». Who acts: Rat, tall bows. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 8

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The Rat heard of «deep-sea fishings», «the tall bows of the great liner taking shape overhead through the fog», and «the merry home-coming» to «red-curtained windows».

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**Who acts:** Rat, tall bows · **What happens:** heard, take, curtain · **To what, where:** shape, fog

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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 (Rat, tall bows), 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:8
# text = The Rat heard of «deep-sea fishings», «the tall bows of the great liner taking shape overhead through the fog», and «the merry home-coming» to «red-curtained windows».
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	heard	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
6	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fishings	fishing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	liner	liner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl
21	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	overhead	overhead	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	_
34	coming	coming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
37	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
38	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	_
40	curtained	curtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
41	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
42	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heard** | past | the Rat |  |  |  |  | of sea fishings and the tall bows of the great liner and the merry home coming; to curtained windows | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | gerund | the tall bows of the great liner *not said here* | shape |  | the fog |  | overhead *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme |
| 3 | **curtain** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=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:060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.lesson:8`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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