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title: After «plain straw... spread on the stone floor of a draughty cell»,… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Li… · tree and pragmatics
description: After «plain straw... spread on the stone floor of a draughty cell», the sheets and blankets felt «very friendly and comforting things». Who acts: sheets. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday ba
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»), sentence 28

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After «plain straw... spread on the stone floor of a draughty cell», the sheets and blankets felt «very friendly and comforting things».

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**Who acts:** sheets · **What happens:** feel · **To what, where:** friendly comforting things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»)» 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 (sheets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:28
# text = After «plain straw... spread on the stone floor of a draughty cell», the sheets and blankets felt «very friendly and comforting things».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.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
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
5	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
6	spread	spread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
10	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nmod
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	draughty	draughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cell	cell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	comforting	comforting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	xcomp	_	_
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **feel** | past | the sheets and blankets | friendly comforting things |  |  | after plain straw and spread |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:068-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage.lesson:28`.

**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. **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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