--- title: He «parted his hair in the middle, and plastered it down very straig… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: He «parted his hair in the middle, and plastered it down very straight and sleek» with water from his hairbrush, and went «quietly» down the stairs. Who acts: Hero. 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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 (Hero), 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:19 # text = He «parted his hair in the middle, and plastered it down very straight and sleek» with water from his hairbrush, and went «quietly» down the stairs. # 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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 parted part VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 plastered plaster VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 down down ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 straight straight ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 sleek sleek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 hairbrush hairbrush NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 28 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 30 down down ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **part** *in a quote* | past | Hero | Hero's hair | | the middle | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | | 2 | **plaster down** *in a quote* | past | Hero *not said here* | hair | | | | with water from Hero's hairbrush; straight *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with water=Theme | | 3 | **go** | past | Hero *not said here* | | | the stairs | | quietly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme down stair=Initial\_Location | 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:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:19`. **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 ×5, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/18/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/)