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title: He had slept for weeks «on straw over stone flags» in prison, so he… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: He had slept for weeks «on straw over stone flags» in prison, so he had almost forgotten how nice thick blankets are. Who acts: Toad, nice thick blankets. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washi
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing), sentence 16

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He had slept for weeks «on straw over stone flags» in prison, so he had almost forgotten how nice thick blankets are.

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**Who acts:** Toad, nice thick blankets · **What happens:** sleep, forget, be · **To what, where:** straw · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing)» 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 (Toad, nice thick blankets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.lesson:16
# text = He had slept for weeks «on straw over stone flags» in prison, so he had almost forgotten how nice thick blankets are.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.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): no change
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past · perfect | Toad |  |  | straw over stone flags | week | in prison | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in prison=Location |
| 2 | **forget** | past · perfect | Toad |  |  |  |  | almost *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **does** | present | nice thick blankets |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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**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:061-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman.lesson:16`.

**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): no change. **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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