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title: He finds a road, then a canal running beside it, and he thinks: they… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: He finds a road, then a canal running beside it, and he thinks: they must both be coming from somewhere and going to somewhere. Who acts: Toad, road. 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)» 
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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 5

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He finds a road, then a canal running beside it, and he thinks: they must both be coming from somewhere and going to somewhere.

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**Who acts:** Toad, road · **What happens:** find, run, think, come, go · **To what, where:** road, canal · **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, road), 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:5
# text = He finds a road, then a canal running beside it, and he thinks: they must both be coming from somewhere and going to somewhere.
# 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	2	nsubj	_	_
2	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
10	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	both	both	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
21	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | Toad | a road and a canal |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Topic |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | a road and a canal *not said here* |  |  | canal |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside it=Trajectory |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Toad |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | must · progressive | road |  |  |  |  | both *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from somewhere=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **go** | gerund | road *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to somewhere=Initial\_Location |

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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:5`.

**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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