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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, Toad, weasel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:34 # text = The weasel's song begins «Toad he went a-pleasuring / Gaily down the street—» (a-pleasuring = going out for fun); Toad mutters «Only just let me get at him!» # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 weasel weasel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 vocative _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:dislocated|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 pleasuring pleasure VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 amod _ _ 13 / / PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Gaily gaily ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis 15 down down ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 — - PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:aux 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 pleasuring pleasure VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 = = PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 conj _ _ 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 mutters mutter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 33 « « PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 34 Only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 just just ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ 42 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: express - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | present | the weasel's song | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | past | song | | | | | Toad *vocative* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pleasure** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **pleasure** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go out** | gerund | | | | | | for fun | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mutter** *speech: express* | present | Toad | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Toad | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | Toad *not said here* | | | | | at Toad | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **sing** | | the weasel | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:34`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,…, 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/33/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,…, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/35/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/)