--- title: He is cut off in the middle of «how very clev——» when he sees a chau… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 4: The… · tree and pragmatics description: He is cut off in the middle of «how very clev——» when he sees a chauffeur (a paid car driver) in leather gaiters and two large rural (country) policemen running after him, about two fields away. Who acts: song, two large rural country policemen. 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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 (song, two large rural country policemen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.lesson:32 # text = He is cut off in the middle of «how very clev——» when he sees a chauffeur (a paid car driver) in leather gaiters and two large rural (country) policemen running after him, about two fields away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 clev clev X GW Typo=Yes 7 nmod _ _ 13 — - PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 14 — - PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 chauffeur chauffeur NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 24 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 leather leather NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 29 gaiters gaiter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc 31 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 32 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 33 rural rural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 34 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 35 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 37 policemen policeman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 38 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 acl _ _ 39 after after ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 about about ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 44 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:obl:unmarked 45 away away ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:advmod 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut off** | present · passive | | song | | the middle clev | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **see** | present | song | a chauffeur and two large rural country policemen | | leather gaiters | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chauffeur=Stimulus | | 3 | **pay** | participle | | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **run** | gerund | two large rural country policemen *not said here* | | | | after song | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:064-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond.lesson:32`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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