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title: The chapter's title, «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears», comes, c… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: The chapter's title, «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears», comes, changed a little, from a line in Tennyson's poem «The Princess»; a summer tempest is a sudden storm that soon passes — like Toad's quick tears. Who acts: Summer Tempests, title, summer tempest, sudden storm. A sentence of the lesson 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad news), sentence 14

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The chapter's title, «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears», comes, changed a little, from a line in Tennyson's poem «The Princess»; a summer tempest is a sudden storm that soon passes — like Toad's quick tears.

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**Who acts:** Summer Tempests, title, summer tempest, sudden storm, chapter · **What happens:** come, change, be, pass, title · **To what, where:** Tears, little, line, sudden storm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad news)» 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 (Summer Tempests, title, summer tempest, sudden storm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.lesson:14
# text = The chapter's title, «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears», comes, changed a little, from a line in Tennyson's poem «The Princess»; a summer tempest is a sudden storm that soon passes — like Toad's quick tears.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Tempests	tempest	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
10	Came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	Tennyson	Tennyson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Princess	princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
41	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	42	advmod	_	_
42	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
43	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
44	like	like	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=48:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
46	's	's	PART	POS	_	45	case	_	_
47	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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** *in a quote* | past | Summer Tempests | title's Tears |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present | the chapter's title |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **change** | participle | the chapter's title *not said here* | a little |  | a line in Tennyson's poem |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from line=Initial\_State |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a summer tempest | a sudden storm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pass** | present | a sudden storm |  |  |  |  | like Toad's quick tears; soon *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **title** |  | the chapter |  |  |  |  |  | nom title «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:065-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them.lesson:14`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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