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title: Then he heaves a long, long sigh, flattens his hair down neatly, and… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he heaves a long, long sigh, flattens his hair down neatly, and goes quietly downstairs to his guests. Who acts: he. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» of the books co
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book), sentence 1

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Then he heaves a long, long sigh, flattens his hair down neatly, and goes quietly downstairs to his guests.

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**Who acts:** he · **What happens:** heave, flatten down, go · **To what, where:** long long sigh, hair

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» 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 (he), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:1
# text = Then he heaves a long, long sigh, flattens his hair down neatly, and goes quietly downstairs to his guests.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.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
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heaves	heave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
8	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	flattens	flatten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
14	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
17	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **heave** | present | he | a long long sigh |  |  | then |  | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme |
| 2 | **flatten down** | present | he *not said here* | his hair |  |  |  | neatly *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | present | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to his guests; downstairs, quietly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to guest=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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:1`.

**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. **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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