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title: «The affair was soon over»: in five minutes the room was cleared; ab… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: «The affair was soon over»: in five minutes the room was cleared; about a dozen enemies lay on the floor, and Mole fitted them with handcuffs. Who acts: dozen enemies, Mole. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and c
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets), sentence 21

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«The affair was soon over»: in five minutes the room was cleared; about a dozen enemies lay on the floor, and Mole fitted them with handcuffs.

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**Who acts:** dozen enemies, Mole · **What happens:** clear, lay, fit · **To what, where:** room, floor, enemies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets)» 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 (dozen enemies, Mole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.lesson:21
# text = «The affair was soon over»: in five minutes the room was cleared; about a dozen enemies lay on the floor, and Mole fitted them with handcuffs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	affair	affair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	cleared	clear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lay	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	Mole	Mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	fitted	fit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	handcuffs	handcuffs	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
32	.	.	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 | **clear** | past · passive |  | the room |  |  | minute | the affair *obl* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **lay** | past | dozen enemies |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination |
| 3 | **fit** | past | Mole | enemies *= enemy* |  |  |  | with handcuffs | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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:071-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall.lesson:21`.

**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, 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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