--- title: A barge is a long flat boat on a canal; here a horse walking on the… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics description: A barge is a long flat boat on a canal; here a horse walking on the tow-path (the path beside the canal) pulls it with a long rope, and the barge-woman steers with the tiller (the handle of the rudder). Who acts: barge, horse, barge woman. 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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 (barge, horse, barge woman), 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:21 # text = A barge is a long flat boat on a canal; here a horse walking on the tow-path (the path beside the canal) pulls it with a long rope, and the barge-woman steers with the tiller (the handle of the rudder). # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 barge barge NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 canal canal NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 15 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 tow tow NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 24 beside beside ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 canal canal NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 28 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 barge barge NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ _ 39 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 steers steer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 tiller tiller NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 handle handle NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 appos _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 rudder rudder NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 50 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a barge | a long flat boat | | a canal | | | tree rules | | 2 | **walk** | gerund | a horse *not said here* | | | the tow path | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on path=Trajectory | | 3 | **pull** | present | a horse | barge | | | | with a long rope | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **steer** | present | the barge woman | | | | | with the tiller | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. 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