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title: Miles later, on a wide common, he finds a man by a caravan with a po… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Miles later, on a wide common, he finds a man by a caravan with a pot of stew bubbling over a fire. Who acts: Toad, man. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)» of the books course
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»), sentence 6

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Miles later, on a wide common, he finds a man by a caravan with a pot of stew bubbling over a fire.

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**Who acts:** Toad, man · **What happens:** find, bubble · **To what, where:** Miles, wide common, fire

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)» 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, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.lesson:6
# text = Miles later, on a wide common, he finds a man by a caravan with a pot of stew bubbling over a fire.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.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	Miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	common	common	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	stew	stew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	bubbling	bubble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | Miles |  | a wide common |  | late *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 2 | **bubble** | gerund | a man *not said here* |  |  | a fire |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over fire=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:062-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg.lesson:6`.

**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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