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title: They flee through the windows, up the chimney, anywhere away from th… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: They flee through the windows, up the chimney, anywhere away from those sticks. Who acts: Weasels. 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 with its depende
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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 5

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They flee through the windows, up the chimney, anywhere away from those sticks.

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**Who acts:** Weasels · **What happens:** flee · **To what, where:** windows

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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 (Weasels), 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:5
# text = They flee through the windows, up the chimney, anywhere away from those sticks.
# 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): no change
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flee	flee	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **flee** | present | Weasels *= weasel* |  |  | the windows and the chimney |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through window=Initial\_Location |

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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:5`.

**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): no change. **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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