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title: A horse comes along the tow-path pulling a barge, steered by a big s… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: A horse comes along the tow-path pulling a barge, steered by a big stout woman in a sun-bonnet. Who acts: horse. 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
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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 7

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A horse comes along the tow-path pulling a barge, steered by a big stout woman in a sun-bonnet.

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**Who acts:** horse · **What happens:** come, pull, steer · **To what, where:** tow path, barge

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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 (horse), 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:7
# text = A horse comes along the tow-path pulling a barge, steered by a big stout woman in a sun-bonnet.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	along	along	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	tow	tow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	barge	barge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	steered	steer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	stout	stout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | a horse |  |  | the tow path |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along path=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pull** | gerund | a horse *not said here* | a barge |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barge=Theme |
| 3 | **steer** | participle | a horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a big stout woman in a sun bonnet | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by woman=Destination |

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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:7`.

**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, R7-rel-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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