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title: The letter-paper had «'Toad Hall' at the top in blue and gold». — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: The letter-paper had «'Toad Hall' at the top in blue and gold». Who acts: letter paper. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»), sentence 23

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The letter-paper had «'Toad Hall' at the top in blue and gold».

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**Who acts:** letter paper · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** Toad Hall, top

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» 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 (letter paper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:23
# text = The letter-paper had «'Toad Hall' at the top in blue and gold».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 | **have** | past | the letter paper | Toad Hall |  | the top in blue and gold |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=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:072-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs.lesson:23`.

**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 ×2, 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/).

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