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title: In the tamed Wild Wood, mother-weasels said: «Look, baby! — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the tamed Wild Wood, mother-weasels said: «Look, baby! Who acts: mother weasels. 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 with its
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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 31

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In the tamed Wild Wood, mother-weasels said: «Look, baby!

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**Who acts:** mother weasels · **What happens:** tame, say, look · **To what, where:** tamed Wild Wood · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (mother weasels), 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:31
# text = In the tamed Wild Wood, mother-weasels said: «Look, baby!
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	tamed	tame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	_	5	flat	_	_
5	Wood	Wood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	vocative	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **tame** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | mother weasels |  |  | the tamed Wild Wood |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | baby *vocative* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:31`.

**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): R7-rel-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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